308 Hall 1955 Aug 22 Sage Hen Creek, 3 mi. NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif. Lower Lots of chickarees calling. 7:32 a bit leaves lodge to swim into main pond. Rat dives. The kit perches on a floating log and feeds. Rat reappears. The kit swims out to get more water weed, which is what it must have been eating the first time, returns to eat it aboard the floating log. 7:37 another bit (at least the 3rd seen tonight) approaches lodge from N end of dam while an adult, whose tail not visible, appears from S end of the dam & large willow stick & enters lodge. Think it was not a marked animal but am not positive. 7:41 kit on log dives off, swims to lodge, floats, then swims back to main pond. Muskrat, which is a little smaller than a kit this time of year, seen swimming in the main pond; another one is in the near the channel. Then one (the 2nd?) cuts some grass & dives & it near (into?) lodge. 7:50 one kit is just swimming back & forth out in the pond, another sits in shallowe near lodge. A bit comes back to perch on log to eat some willow cuttings, the other one still squatting in shallows.