Field notes, v1520
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1968 Rees Jan. 8 Put out Calhoun trap line in Tidden Park at 3 p.m. Upper lin only, 60 Museum species fed with peanut butter Cold + cloudy. Saw a few runways, 2 red-tails, sparrow hawk, also put about 24 slammers in some corns and below a football in mustard-thistles where there were a few runways. Jan. 9 Night very cold and cloudy. Calhoun line had 6 Rattlers. 8:30 a.m. The slammers had about 15 Rattlers and 2 Peromyscus momenticus. The 18 Rattlers or 2 Peromyscuses were released. Put traps again at 3 p.m. 1 micaster in the Calhoun line, 2 in the live traps, plus some Rattlers in the live traps. Jan. 10 Heavy rain sometime between midnight and 4 a.m. Most of the Calhown trap lines were sprung by the rain. Caught in Calhoun line were 11 Rattlers and 1 Sorex. The 24 live traps held 1 Pero mouse, and more than 19 Rattlers. Saw sparrow hawk, Jan. 11 Set traps at 5 p.m., cold + clear, Calhoun line had 1 Mike. Live traps held 5 mice at 3 Rattlers. Jan. 12 Setled up traps at 8:30 a.m. Cold + clear, ice on paddles and heavy frost. Calhoun line had 6 Rattlers. Live traps (24) held 17 Rattlers and 2 Peromyscus momenticus (one of them a grey immature). The 24 live traps are noteworthy; mostly set in pairs and close together; Jan. 10 caught 1 Pero and 19 Rattlers (all helft), than on Jan. 11 (picked 2 Pero and 17 Rattlers. Summary of Calhoun's: Jan. 9 Jan. 10 Jan. 11 A M 6 Rattlers 11 Rattlers 6 Rattlers 1 Sorex mouse 1 Sorex mouse P m 1 micaster 1 micaster Total 3 days: 23 Rattlers, 2 Micasters, 1 Sorex.