Pearson 1945 June 30 Several of the colatus zopna have died. There seems to be poor survival for those found torpid in the trapa. Trapping score overnight: 3 Merotus, 5 water shrews, 6 Zopna, 4 Peromyscus. I'm preparation for leaving tod to release some water shrews. One bird escaped from his cardboard box and 4 others we released and lost trying to photograph. Set up the camera at a very nice mossy bit of stream by a waterfall etc, with a rock in midstream. Hoped to get get a shrew to pause on the rock for a picture, but they dashed off with astonishing rapidity. Only one of the four (2 of them twice) = 6 attempts waited for the shutter to click - and he was one who had gotten his fur wet + disarranged. They swam from the rocks to the banks (about a foot) and disappeared into tunnels which I'd not seen before, occasionally reappearing at other holes when glimpses are caught of them running across an opening or along the edge of the stream. they look very Blarina - like - especially if the long tail is hidden. When two met in their tunnels, they uttered a series of grating squeaks or chirps not unlike those of Blarina. Some of our released ones met several times in the tunnels both under the banks. We dug out one of these tunnels. There were two openings opening above water under