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LIDICKER
1978
July 7 cont.
Well at 1 p.m. we were in the bunker. Then we returned
to the Poschiavo to work on our catch. About noon the
man who ran the grocery offered us D:ck & Naomi.
I picked up our 9 traps then; catch - 1 Ajatamurus (infiltrations?)
in a trap trap. Worked on mine until lunch at 0:00 or
afterwards for another hour. I skinned 6 of our catch of
8 and we got kisses & complete skeletons from all. Then we
went into Poschiavo to the bank & bought some glass-headed
jars for preserving the mouse skins. Want to shed & sew up
& after checking old exits, we went through the pile (I long in
the wild contained food-looking brown holes - into this).
We therefore picked up the 5 live traps there.
Then we went down the valley to see a chick
traps. At the Brasio key line, our 4 traps produced 2 live
Mice, so we saw a total of 7 live birds then. Then we
retrieved our 2 live traps from a migratory & in the process
we took to a nearby deposit wild contained fields of
old tobacco leaves & only two birds. We got 10 live
traps then. At Campacologno we set 15 mice D: in
a grassy field in wild orchid we had seen a few mouse-
nized holes (no steps!). We also looked over several
other fields which did not look as promising. In Campascio
we found a large chicken farm where we got permission to set
6 St. traps and. Then we returned to Zalko to check
our 10 traps in the day light. To our surprise we had
4 more live birds . We reset the ,0 traps. Then we set
9 mice D: in a storage shed next to the barn which