Lucas, John 1991 Journal San Juan Natural Area, BLM, adjacent to Navajo Dam State Park, San Juan Co., New Mexico. Elevation [illegible] July 3-6 San Juan Canyon from Farmington via U.S. Highway 64 east through (Cont.) Bloomfield and Blanco, turning NE on NM State Highway 571. I crossed the San Juan River by turning W on NM Highway 173. A quarter mile past the river, a good gravel road turned NE, signed for both Cottonwood Campground and, 3 miles on, San Juan Canyon Natural Area. Weather July 3 mostly sunny, SC W breezes, temp 65-95°F. 15:45-16:00 San Juan Canyon was briefly explored but passed thru only entered trails very quickly - there were lots of lesser goldfinches here. I decided quickly to make this my next field site. But for the evening, I would dine with Jim and Linda Reeve and spend the night with them at their home in Farmington. From then I picked up three large, heavy boxes of fossils gathered in the foothills of the Zuni Mountains, to transport those to Kevin Padian at the Museum of Paleontology back at U.C. Berkeley. I left Farmington at 05:00 July 4, set up my site at San Juan Canyon and caught my first lesser goldfinch by 06:30. After getting 2 birds by 08:30, I took a break to create a sandy spot for my camp and set it up before it got too warm. When I was alone making camp and eating breakfast, about 09:40 bird activity had subsided considerably. Things were very quiet by noon, so I explored San Juan Canyon proper, walking about a mile up canyon and back in a leisurely fashion. After lunch I put up one of the birds (waiting still for two hours to vocalize for recording), and re-opened my mist nets. I caught a couple more birds late afternoon. I spent from 17:30 to 20:00 putting reports and field notes in my work texts.