Dear John 1992 Journal Armstrong Ranch 2 miles E of Armstrong, Karnes Co., Texas. Elevation 20 feet. May 6-11 failed to find any birds, but I caught a beautiful Texas indigo snake (crut) over six feet in length. I had read that this was a mild tempered species, so I was surprised, in addition to bleeding, when bitten by this animal. While my net caught no goldfinches but many migrant song birds, migrants are more numerous than anytime since the first day I was here. With such poor luck to the NW of ranch headquarters, I explored along a dirt track to the E. fence line of this pasture. It is 3.3 miles from camp. At the fence line, there is a nice witte of large live oaks extending 0.5 miles to the north, bordering both sides of the fence. Further very nice witte was 2.7 miles E. of camp. There are goldfinches here, too, but redistributed in pairs; in short, there is little reason to expect any more success here than when I have been trying my luck. It was a good day for observing non-avian vertebrates. I already mentioned one of the snakes. I also found an unidentified hair-tailed skunking in the broad based understory of a witte of small oaks near one of my nets. I couldn't tell what it was, so I approached slowly; when I got about 8' away, I could still see only about a six inch square of what turned out to be the shoulder of a pecary, which spring to alert and bolted away through the brush. Then interesting, if case of an adrenaline rush, was watching a bobcat stalk a deer. To my surprise, the bobcat did not make its terminal approach into the wind, and that may have been the reason for its failure. Weather may 7 was just about ideal for me. It got cold enough last night (down 55°F at dawn) that to sleeping bag felt good! There was