EL Karatun 1955 Magnetite Portable tape recorder loaned by Moses Asch, Folkways Records, N.Y. Recording Data June 7 Huntington Lake (Deer Creek Campground), 6950 ft. Fresno Co., Calif. Reel No. 1 About 400 feet of wind calls. Lodgepole pine grove on north side of Lake. Also Red fir, Jeffrey pine.. 5:40-6:20 A.M. Temp. cool 8-10° C. Western soline first woke me about 3:45 A.M. Mole singing from 40-60 feet up in pines. Full moon probably initiated early morning activity, Western wood pewee, mt. chickadee also recorded in background but soline predomiant. June 8 .2 miles NE Kaiser Passa summit, 9200 ft., Fresno Co., Calif Reel No. 2 Almost full reel of the Yosemite food buffer camera recorded 1-2 P.M. 3-4 mole tracks involved (see field notes). Full trail of moles; also the "release notes" of moles as otter mole attempted amphibine. SW breeze but sunny and warm 24-25° C. Hyla rejilla background. Reel No. 3 June 11 Kaweah Campground at Giant Forest, 7000? ft., Sequonia National Park, Tulare Co., Calif. 5:30 A.M. An attempt to record anguished grunts of 350 lb. female deer (Uraus americanus - American black deer) which we forced us into a white fir. She clung there for nearly an hour before we let her down. Her stall during the night: 4 caches of food, one can awindow broken out completely, one mutilated iron food locker, hours of lost sleep. Note cougar's remorse, deer sliding hurriedly down tree trunk ad feeding for other parts. Later we discovered her 2 cuba 50 feet up in another tree - and felt happy we didn't