JOURNAL Lower Nye Campground, 3300 ft., Lomi N+2½ mi. W Crockett Pk., Lake Co., Calif. Returned to the camper ca. 12:00, waited for Susan + Ned to finish their birds, and had lunch ca. 12:30. After lunch we moved on to a new location: Lomi, N+2 mi. W Crockett Pk., Lake Co., Calif. Habitat - good sized Ponderosa + Sugar pines, Douglas fir, Black oak woodlands - patches of chaparral w/ lots of manzanita and scrub oak. We got here about 1400 and Ned prepared the 2 birds I had collected for him while Susan + I split up + went collecting, she for Wrentits, me primarily for Mountain Chickadee. I collected a Solitary Vireo soon after leaving the camper (I walked south along the road) but found little of interest thereafter, it being the middle of the afternoon. I turned back about 1600 since the Vireo was getting old + I needed to take tissues. On the way back I saw a Mt. Chickadee and shot at it but missed. (see spp. account). After I had prepared the Vireo, I went out again and found more chickadees, 2 of which I collected (see spp. account). I then returned to the camper ca. 1730 and made a skin of one of them, while Susan (who had gotten lost early in the afternoon but found her way back by 1800) made a complete skeleton of the other (DAG 46). The time now is 2000 and we have not yet had dinner. Weather today cool + clear + still in morning, hot + clear later. A breeze came up as well.