Curt Blair 1974 Journal White Mountain Research Station, Bishop, Inyo Co., California June 17 Today and yesterday have been very windy here, and the relative humidity in the animal room has fallen considerably as a result; it read 4% this morning. One of the young and the four adults surviving on Atriplex leaf diets exhibit the leaf shearing syndrome, or induced by sheared leaves in the cage bottoms. My canaries continue to gain weight. Some of the spring on a seed + Atriplex diet are losing weight, but slowly. The minias on seed diets loose - I'm surprised most of them are still alive. Not much else has happened other than following the daily routine of feeding the animals. The blackbird and Atriplex are both laying up, however, and the reduced water content of the leaves may place a limit on my experiments. Every day I see the pair of Marsh Hawks (α + ?) around the Buckley Ponds (see map next page). They seem to respect me or I gather wishes. The marsh hawks center their activities on the area denoted "Sawtooth" on the map, consisting mostly of reeds and low trees. I have not