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[[underline]] Aug. 9 [[/underline]] Sunday. Spent the forenoon taking photographs, mainly of Ochotona & their hay & rock slides on [[underline]] east base of Baldy Peak, [[/underline]] where there is a big rock slide of gray quartzite inhabited by 6 or 8 coneys. They are very tame & this morning were very busy making hay. Probably the cold might spurred them on as they had not shown much energy before in cutting hay. An old fellow that I watched for a hour ^ [[(8-9)]] was too busy to pay serious attention to me. At 8 AM I found him hard at work gathering hay. He stopped for a few loud 'yeaks' as he sized me up from the top of a gray boulder & then scampered over the rocks to the nearest weed patch for a load of hay. While he was busy I crept closer to his rock pile & as he came back with a big bunch of leaves of cliff rose (Potentilla fruticosa) in his mouth and deposited them under a boulder I located one of caches of hay & while he went for another load arranged myself where I wanted to be, close to his stack. In a minute he was back with a bunch of grass