Field notes, v1414
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Koford 1975 Journal Hastings Natural History Reservation, 1800 ft, 14 mi SE Carmel Valley, Monterey Co., Calif. 21 Nov. I drove a University car, one of 3 the Mammalogy Class took down to Hastings. There were 12 students in all, plus Bill Glenn, Dr. and Mrs. Patton. We arrived at about 1400. After putting our equipment away, we split up. I set 3 gopher sets (Tracabies) on the hill NW of the lab, then at 1500 went with Bill Glenn, Ross Greenberg, Dave Grober, and Mark Hafner to set Mammal Specials on the chapise chaparral Colburn line - 3 traps at each of 35 stations. Ten of the stations were on the edge of chaparral and grassland. We returned as it was getting dark. Two other groups had set traps on 2 other Colburn lines - grassland and Oak woodland. After dinner, at 1930, I checked by gopher traps and found one Thomomys bottae. I removed that trap, leaving 2. Then I put up the specimen (#58). The sky was clear, the moon 2 or 3 days past full. The sky has been mostly clear all day, temperature reaching about 68°F, falling to ~40°F in the evening. The wind was very light. 22 Nov. After breakfast Bill Glenn, Dave Grober, and I checked the Colburn line, catching 17 Peromyscus truei, 9 P. californicus, 3 Reithrodontomys megalotis, 2 Dipodomys venustus, and 1 Perognathus californicus. I put up 2 of the Peromyscus later in the day. I checked the 2 remaining gopher sets several times, but found nothing. At about 1700 Jim Patton, Mark Hafner, Beverly McCarthy, Kathy Thomas, and I set 3 adjacent mist nets over the stock pond about 400m. W of John Davis' house. At a little after sunset we caught 1 Larinus cinereus, 1 Myotis californicus. We only saw one additional bat and found no others in the