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1963
season
March 11 Picked up scats on most of the center tracks on the Tidders grid - not quite 1/pint. Saw no cats, but one dead stinky black & white one in the middle of one of the tracks. Some mustard blooming but most of it not yet. A negro man and woman were cutting mustard greens along the firebreak on the 75-ave area.
March 21 Picked up scats on Tidders area (Parkberry property area). Saw no cats, but one garter snake, one red-tail, and one black cat below runway way. Found dead mule lying in middle of firebreak; no external damage but several subcutaneous hemorrhages - a mulch? &
tall green mustard, some blooming
Tall dead mustard stalks
Green thistles
Lots of runways here and here
cliffed-off oats, a hard 1 to 2 feet wide
green tall oats with seed heads
Held to 15 yards
dead grass
scattered dead mustard stalks
a few low mustard rosettes
lots of runways. Scarcely a green-shoot for first 10 yards, then gradual increase of green grass
firebreak
Good green oats
Some green mustard
some old mustard stalks
The muntjacs in this section through a firebreak, are concentrated in the tall cover on the down-hill edge.