Field notes, v1520
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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.