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[[underlined]] June 1 [[/underlined]] - The 8:30 train was 5 hours late and did not come till 2:30, so we tramped over valley and along dry bed of Rio Mimbres & got a full list of plants & birds & some mammal & reptile notes.  The forest of Yucca radiosa is sending up great flower stalks that are like esparagus tips only 6 feet long and 2 or 3 inches through.  The buds have not yet begun to spread and it will be some time before the flowers are out.  The mesquite bushes have a few old blossoms that seem to have been injured by the frost, but are also full of new buds.  There are almost no flowers but a few warm days would bring them out in great variety & profusion.  The ground is wet below the dry surface.

The Rio Mimbres is as usual a bed of dry sand, but there are many holes where coyotes have been digging down into the wet sand for water.  I could not be sure whether they had got any.