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Hastings Reservoir
Feb 10 Put 39 shermans baited with oats in the grassland parallel with the Colburn line, 3:30pm. Some runways at north end but none at south end.
The field above the water/pumps (especially the end near the island of Elymus) is riddled with immature swanep and fresh droppings. Surely several hundred more there now where there were none in November. The Elymus itself doesn't seem to be as green as it was in November and doesn't seem to have any more runways than in November. No runways over the fence in the grazed pasture. The cover is denser in the Elymus pastures than in the Colburn pastures.
along the open ridge leading up to our oak Colburn line are lots of immature sign (among Stipa) and even some fresh runways in the grass under the oaks near the oak Colburn line. Overcast.
Feb 11 Night mostly overcast, no frost. At 7:30 am. traps held 5 Pero manic, 1 Pero boyleri (last trap before choparol, tail ripped while being removed from trap), 2 Heathros, and 2 Soreft armatus. Kept the shrews and 1 Pero manic. At 2 PM (mostly overcast) traps held 2 adult moeritus.
June 6 Al French set 70 shermans below the white road at Inspiration Point in Tucker Park and caught no Moeritus, 1 old male Berthos, and 2 juvenile Berthros. A couple of nights earlier 70 traps had caught no Berthros.