RE Johnson 1968 Journal 32 March 21 Bodie, Mono Co., California to Berkeley, Calif. Night was cold as usual. The ground is like a bricIe. I camped a few miles from Bodie toward the Hwy near a small open shack and meadow. There Murphy Spring is a spring with cool (not cold) water. I was up at 6:10 AM, but its now 7:45 AM & Im just through with fixing my breakfast, tending the mice, starting the car (a bit sluggish) and bringing notes up to date. It was probably colder last night than the previous one & if so it was below 15° F. It had been about that in both Susanville & Reno last night & I was half way between the two. This morning I have heard Mt. Bluebird & a large flock of some Fringillid (I was not enough awake, etc to be sure what they were or to locate them). In the sagebrush flats just south of Bodie Horned Larks are common & are singing. I collected one male which was sitting beside the road on a dirt clod. I stopped at the Ranger Office & Bill drove me to 2 shafts he'd often seen birds in. We threw rocks down the shafts of these (the Lent Shaft & 2 stopes on Bodie Bluff — both locations are NE of town) & no birds flew out. He indicated that ordinarily many birds would fly out if they were present. I wondered if time of day made a difference (it was 9-9:30 AM when we visited the