Jerry, Jr. 1992 Journal 29 Roosting Roan 2 mile E of Roosting Kenndy Co. Texas. Elevation 23 feet. May 6-11 Winds in the afternoon were somewhat stronger. It remained solidly cloudy (cont.) until after sundown, when amazingly quickly all clouds came cascaded to produce a clear, starry sky with a near half moon. Temperatures today were 68-70F. After completing the tour, I opened my nets, then called my wife. I learned that my sister Jeri had been killed Tuesday night in a single car MVA, despite wearing a seat belt. She leaves two kids, age 17 & 14. I closed up the empty nets and called it a day. Jeri was 34. The funeral was this morning. On May 10, I opened nets at sunrise and started my recording equipment. I shotgun from one to the next to the next to the next all morning, in any taking of a goldfinch. During a relative lull in the wind about noon I found in fairly close succession 3 goldfinches that stuck around long enough for my shotgun to come into play. And late in the day I netted a pair, for a total of five birds. I check there only one for a 20-gid sample from South Texas. There was in camp, while preparing the late-caught birds by lantern light, a 36-38" coral snake about 15' from my head. Yesterday after- noon, I had never seen a coral snake in this country. Since then I've seen one dead and, now, one alive. But I think the prettiest snake I saw today was a beautiful Scarlet Kingsnake, which posed for an unusually nice view before entering a shrubby margin to a scrubby growth of oaks. After finishing the dead specimen prep, I drove the back roads of the N. "lecture" from 22:00 to 23:15; road travel was uneventful. Weather May 10 was windy almost all day and cloudy all day. Upper level winds carried clouds from E -> W, but surface winds were