L10/C/65 1877 May 21 cont. - Lake Mindering This was 1 man & M.x checked the extents of ~5 M.x with a canal's hair brush looking for headstuds. Found only 1 headstud & placed it = cotton wick for Design Pointers (UCB). Head to bed ~2200. Saw red squirrels, & fair amount of mossy smalltit singing during our long walk & lots of birds (many) M.x extended most of the way down toward the lake, but mostly in the vicinity of the stream. We also walked through a growing meadow along this stream and it had small amount of M.o. sign. Lots of common nests - fox & llynx sizes; 1 fox- sized nest contained smalltit hair & some Mice's hairs. May 22 - Got up ~0700. - Quiet parts of stream program. 0715-0730: j: checked high meadow camp. Bird point - 2 M.x (18+14); Edge - M.x -2 (18+14) - W2u - 1 (1f) - Jow Slope forest & mossy line - only, snapped trap & net. Picked up camp & liked back to growing clearing. P: checked up old traps line (18+10+5); caught nothing (1 Mss. spc. = green war singer that contained four bird feathers). Liked back to airstrip. Saw 1 Snowshoe hare - quite tame. Stood or looked in the woods & liked down a subsidizing runway, heading to lake shore; the following shore to north to our least trap line. P: checked it up 1120 - caught caught nothing. Total catch: C. rutilus - 4 - mature shrew M.x (catching) - 21 (Slope: 28, 4 ff; slope: 2 f; middle: 38, 34; edge: 28, 5 f). Walked back to our fields now the morning, & had