Transcribing the field notes of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft. Date: Oct. 9 Page Number: 2579

Red-breasted Sapsucker again, but failed to sight him; he evidently visits a series of punctured trees in a sort of regular or irregular circuit. Tonight I saw a Prairie Falcon in flight; my attention was attracted to it by hearing the startled shreek (sic) of a ground squirrel These squirrels get into my steel traps every day; they must smell the meat bait, or else cover a great deal of ground in promiscuous foraging each day. Merriam Chipmunks are as numerous as chipmunks any place I have ever been; they, too, cover all sorts of ground pretty thoroly. Almost every sort of bird and mammal now a days, visits the cascara bushes, which are fruiting plentifully. There are no acorns, and few or no fruits of the manzanita and buckthorn. The pine cone crop is fair. Take away the pines and the cascaras, and the birds and mammals would be faring poorly, indeed; doubtless a number of the species would promptly become extinct. Another year the oaks might be the dependence. I have seen much more mole sign, even far up in the hills, beyond any gopher workings, where the coarse granite gravel between the boulders looks most sterile. In such places the mole "ridges" are sinuous, caved-in grooves-- the animals leaving no hole, just moving along close to the surface, and