Texas, fall 1991 Journal Washington Ranch, adjacent to Rattlesnake Spring portion of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Eddy Co., New Mexico. Elevation 3650 feet. July 30 - Anomala: Canis - Track procyon gopher sp August 2 Striped Skunk Eritrigon (Cant) small bat sp Lyssus mouse sp Sylvilagus rock squirrel Odocoileus Dipodomys sp Gila River, 4 miles downstream from Highway 180 bridge. Gila National Forest Draco Cr., New Mexico. Elevation 4350 ft. August 5-7 - I left Washington Ranch to find a field site in south-central New Mexico. I drove first to Aguirre Springs National Recreation Area on the east side of the Organ Mtns in Doña Ana County. I took U.S. Hwy 62/180 to Carlsbad, picked up U.S. Hwy 285 north to Artesia, then went on U.S. 82 through Cloudcroft & Alamogordo to the signed turn-off for Aguirre Springs. The access road was gated near its Terminus, and I parked in the dark waiting for dawn. With day-light, I drove to a high spot in the road, climbed atop my car & scouted the area for deciduous riparian habitat likely to hold goldfinches in winter. Finding none, I determined to scout the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico for suitable habitat. I drove from Las Cruces to Socorro, taking several side roads as well, but using U.S. Highway 85 most of the time. On the west side of La Cueva, an area known as the "Old Refuge" was touted as a riparian bird haven, but clearly all of the large cottonwoods are dead, long dead. The Tamarisk had no goldfinches when I visited. By far the best gold-finch habitat was at Lucero Dam State Park in Sierra Co., near Arroy.