Cogswell 1949 Journal 55 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Aug. 10 (cont.) camp vicinity: Butorides virescens - 1 ardea herodeia several chamaea fasciata singing Troglodytes aedon - 2 feeding young spizella passerina - 1 From about 12:40 to 4:00 p.m. I walked up the road which lies W. of and more or less parallel to Maple Creek above the bridge to a point about 1 mile (SKE MAP #720A) from camp. This is in the edge of an old burn, now grown up to thick semi-shrubs, some shrubs on the steep hillsides with scattered stumps, boles, many down burned logs, etc. The area immediately adjacent to the road for most of the way is alder & elderberry thicket about 15-25 ft. high, grading into alders with some maple - with different understory along the stream bed. Gloss alder thickets are probably not significantly different from those near camp as regards bird life; but I found a nest of a wood rat (Neotoma sp.) over an old stream bed, and chipmunks were heard all along. Eventually the alders bordering the road become patchy & the gravel-digging operations for road building materials has made it possible to walk the stream bed more or less easily. Species seen or heard in this region are: