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Loral Pearson
1969
Journal
5 Jul E
10 am's Yanap, 8,000ft, Deshina
20 July along it, sunny, pleasant temp. Saw about 8 condors,
lots of doves of various sorts that I don't have sorted out
yet; & vencejo andino, Pygchelidon cyaneaea, a
fluke of small green parrots, 2 large parrots, 2
woodpeckers, lots of mockingbirds, several long-tails)
blade birds (but anis), a ? torrent duck, several [illegible]
Tyranus [illegible].
The hills above irrigation line were quite bare
+ rocky (yellowish rocks) for the longest time, and then
shutly before where we stopped ceotus + Tilloukia's
came in, + than shutly before we stopped, bushes. Here
now the river are Scotch broom + other brushes, fig trees + others.
On the slopes are some kind(s) of columns - bushy coetuses,
picklepear in places, dead-looking + everydry bushes,
agaves, + even a bit of tall grass, dry.
I set 26 lge folding shamans with oatmeal + 7 snaps
w oatmeal across a brushy slope with little rocky
cover + than up a rocky slide where there was more
agave + lge cactus +, up high some grass (tall +dry).
Windy afternoon, but still evening.
21 July
Wind down the conyon most of night, morning.
In my traps: live - 1 Phylletis andium snap: 3
P. annius ( OPP identified). The snaps were at stations
with live traps too, toward the end of the line where there
was more rocks + lge cactus + agave. One live trap had us
beat in it + had mouse droppings in it. I had found one
place with a small pile of dry grass.
Set up two mist nets (Blitz), one between shore