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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