Field notes, v1520
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killed muntjacs at the entrance. Two other freshly killed muntjacs lay in another crevice nearby. This makes 4 different cats seen on the area. A red-tail flew over the grey & white cat; no reaction. Saw a Cooper? banks. Oct.4 Picked up scats, saw no cats. There has been light bulldozing on the main horizontal tracks. Oct.5 Finished picking up scats on the area = 5 1/4 gallons. saw no cats. Nov.7 First rain, about 1/2 inch. Leaves begin to come out again on some of the oaks stripped by oak moths. This was a big oak-moth year. Oscar Pairs says that muntjacs were very abundant at the Russell Tract farm in Lafayette a year ago (that is, summer of 1964). Nov.9 Picked up scats on left hand end of the area, lots! No doubt some were once overlooked at last collection, but many fresh ones. Saw 2 cats: a yellow striped one apparently too big to be one of the 2 patterns seen in October, and a black one with inconspicuous orange brown spots. When seen, the black one was following the yellow one across the skyline first trail. Also found 1 very dead grey and white one - dead at least 2 weeks. also 1 deer, 1 redtail, and 1 Cooper banks. Numerous jacky gopher diggings. Also found an empty, small carton of mouse poison pellets.