Field notes, v1444
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LIDICKER 1985 England 30 Sept. to 10 Oct. Sept. 30 - Oct. 1 - travel to York for meeting of the Board of Trustees, BIOSIS Oct. 1-6 - York, traveling to London on 6th, stopping for lunch in Peterborough with group from Elsevier Pub. Co. Oct. 7 - London to Exeter, Devonshire, via Hungerford, Bristol Channel + Torquay. Oct 8 - to Plymouth & the Dartmoor National Pk. to Lyme Regis in Co. Dorset (possibly Red John Lake) Oct 9 - to Waymouth , then to Maiden Castle, Dorchester, Stonehenge to Farham, Surrey Oct. 10 - to Gatwick & return to N. Augusta, S.C. DBR mammals seen: rabbits - lots, fox - 1 + Ledgehog - 1, gray squirrels - few. Only non-domestic mammals seen were Sciurus carolinensis. Also lots of vole sign. A few attempts for Microtus running turned up nothing. Birds seen: Shag (D. cr. Cornland) Little Grebe ? - 1 Gray Heron Mute Swan Canada Goose Barnacle Goose - 1 (Waymouth) Graylag Goose Mallard European Wigeon Ehr. Teal Shoveler Shelduck-3 (Waymouth) Scaup ? - 10 + Tufted Duck - 1+ (York) Wood Duck w/Mandarin - 1 & (York) Buzzard Peregrine Falcon Kestrel (cont.)