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LIDICKON
1981
Sun, 9 aug.
That it was not coming. So I walked back to
Marshalkowska St. & took the 2 bus sequence to get
to the Instytut. I finally arrived about 0930.
After some discussion & glass of herbata, 5 of us went
to walk in nearby Kampinos Forest. The group
included Krystyna, Bogumila Oleck, Wacek
Malinowska & his consort Barbara. Oleck, an
ornithologist was originally going to take me to a
ham listel place in the forest for a small birding trip,
but a car was not available. We helped Wacek & Barban
run 3 ~ 7 grids (25 x 25m with 25 line traps each)
in the forest. Wacek is interested in studying spatial
temporal information transfer, & the interacti of these
2 dimensions in the small natural communities. Saw
olive: Clostionomyg glerrolus, Microtus agrestis,
Microtus oeconomus (within area), Apodemus
flavicolis, A. sylvestris, A. agrarius, and Micromys
minutus. Only with Krystyna's help did they seem to
be able to identify the micratus & the A. sylvestris. I
took a few photos including habitat - shots for both species
of Micromys. Also saw beaver food made by ??? one of
3 pairs introduced several years ago into the forest. Then
he visited a fig or fox farm where Krystyna is studying
Rattus & Mus populations in the barns & making
trap-line transsects from the barns across adjacent
meadows out into the Forest. The next problem is