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3 Reithro, 2 musc, 1 rabbit, 1 skrew, 1 ear tag
# 1045 (a musc tagged June 15 on Tilden Grid).
9 Nov.
Put 68 skrews in field north of Orinda Pasture; 5 p.m. No green vegetation except a few flecks of perennial grass at lower corner of the field.
Nov. 10
at 7:30 a.m. traps held 12 Reithro, 2 muscristae,
1 musc, 1 cricket. Only 1 of the Reithros was a tagged one. I killed it, tagged the other Reithros. Released skrews and musc without tagging.
Nov. 14
at 2 p.m. set 12 traps (skrews) at Nimity Triangle,
2am I got there.
Nov. 15
at 7 a.m. traps held 5 muscristae and 2 Reithro.
Only one of the five (a muscristae) had benovopic dungs.
I released 2 of circled the muscristae.
Finished analyzing Nov 1 carmine scats from Tilden:
597 Muscristae, 65 musc, 70 Reithro, 1 rabbit, 2 gophers, 1 bird,
1 [illegible], 4 lizard, 1 noctona, many male crickets, melon seeds, and 4 trap: 1317 & musc Aug. 24, 1476 ad - Muscristae Sept. 27,
1507 muscristae Sept. 29, 1518 Reithro & Sept. 29.
Picked up 1 pint scats in Orinda north of pasture and 10 owl pellets containing 66 crickets, 14 muscristae,
1 Reithro, 1 [illegible], 4 gophers, 1 rabbit, 1 reptile.
Nov. 19
Rain started in evening.
Nov. 20
Rain most of night, about 1". First real storm of season,
but scattered sun in morning.
Nov. 16
Picked up 2 qt's of scats on Tilden area plus ½ pint on Tilden Grid. These came from a quick cruise over most of the good trails and ¼ of the Sequoias. Saw 3 scats, 1 deer, heard howlsowl.