ELK station 1955 Recording notes (3) no recording reel no. 6. l must have goofed and had switch on "play" position! June 16 [Reel no. 7] 300 feet Red's meadow. hairy woodpecker in hollow pine snag. Some mountain chickadee, finch. June 27 Faith Valley, 7500 ft., Alpine Co., Calif., lost 300 feet [reel no. 7] recorded 7:30-8:30 A.M. Open range cattle, red-winged blackbird for out in meadow. White-crowned sparrow, purple finch. July 8 Camp 19, 4000 ft., Yosemite Valley, California. Paul Elders caught a mole Scapous lotnancus sericatus (Yosemite mole) which we placed in a glass aquarium. He angry gestic notes of the mole when prodded were put on tape. When released it took the mole but 35 seconds to burrow underground in relatively hard-packed open ground. July 10 5:30-7:00 A.M. Bird calls recorded west of Graft. Center near base of Yosemite Falls which can be heard as roar on tape. No wind. Western wood pewee, Steller jays, acorn (or Calif.) wood- pickers, solins, flickers are in area. Nest were four fledgling acorn woodpeckers 30 feet up in a black oak tree or they squawked for food. The first bird calls after the mole are mostly of black-headed grosbeak near Central Bridge 5:45 A.M. This termine with sound of movement automobiles in Valley. Clear