188 Journal R.E.Johnson 1969 April 11 Berkeley, Calif. to Peavine Mtn., Nevada & Squaw Valley, Calif. Left Berkeley at 11:30 AM in a UC station wagon & drove straight through to Reno over Interstate 80. Bought gas & a few groceries and then drove to the mine shaft on Peavine Mtn where I captured live birds on Feb. 16, arriving lower at 3:30 PM. There is no snow remaining on the south slope of the mountain and the road & ground is very dry allowing me to drive all the way to the mine shaft. The Sierras to the west are deep & glistening with snow but only 2 very small snow patches can be seen high on Peavine Mtn as viewed from the mine. Other patches can be seen from the highway, & from Reno it appears that the north slope may have some snow. Still the impression is one of dry midsummer in sagebrush country — hardly where one would expect to find rosy finches. The sky is clear, the sun very warm, but the air temp. is cool (18°C in shade). I threw many rocks down the shaft & got no response. During the next couple hours I occasionally heard a Say’s Phoebe in the nearby Ponderosa pine and once a yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Three cycles rood up the road beside the barbed wire fence to the east. Patches of flowering (white to deep pink) Onion decorated the stoney ground. I took several pictures of these & the shafts. At 5:45 PM the sun was still up but its intensity began to decrease due to the haze in the west. An Antelope Ground Squirrel dashed across the tailinge pile beside the mine. The sun completely disappeared below the horizon at 6:01 PM. Its still quite light however & rosy finches could be feeding in the sun in other locations. The