Humboldt 1949 Aug 8 Journal -112- Big Lagoon Humboldt Co. Calif - Arrived here after 6 p.m. This evening. Left Berkeley about 5 a.m., came via San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Eureka. Got supplies at Arcata. Saw two osprey nests in the tops of redwoods and picked up a dead immature Pileated Woodpecker- on highway .5 mile south of the Sonoma-Mendocino County line. Saw 2 Purple Martins at one place along the way but failed to record the locality - it was north of Fairfaxville and south of the Humboldt Bay area. Saw 1 Brown Pelican plus many gulls on the rocks north of Trinidad Head. The camp as now set up is at the S end of Big Lagoon - a small grassy opening surrounded by thimble-berry with dead snags of Sitka spruce immediately E of camp. Aug 8 - same locality - went out with Dr. Miller early this morning, then returned, loaded up and went hunting alone - worked along Maple Creek E of camp until I came to a sharp corner in the stream with shallow water that allowed me to cross - then I worked across the gravel bar - missing a Rough-winged Swallow enroute - cut across a pasture meadow and in alongside a thick Sitka spruce Picea sitchensis forest, with thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus, salmonberry Rubus spectabilis , nettle.