Field notes, v1520
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Pearson 1970 Hastings Reservation, Monterey Co., Calif. July 3 arrived 2 p.m. with Anita, Carol, C.D. Balph, David Butsch, and Christos Meake. Hot and humid. Set oak and meadow calburn lines before zuffer and chaparral line after zuffer. No mouse sign along oak and chaparral lines (except needed droppings on the oak line), some meiotic sign along the meadow line. Saw pinch rabbit at the edge of the chamise along the chaparral line. Lots of # rabbit droppings as usual at the edge of the chamise. White-tailed kite hunting over Pearson field at dusk; saw 3 stoops onto ground but apparently caught nothing. Enclosures in Pearson field: both the spadesure and the false spadesure have thicker vegetation than surrounding area—no bare patches showing through, more old dead vegetation. No gross differences between the two. Night clear, calm, no dew. July 4 Oak trophy had 2 living empty of the downed oak, many earth quse. Chaparral line had 3 truei, all in chaparral. Meadow had 1 immature and 1 half- grown fathero; about 20 spring empty. Went with Dave Bradford through his chamise area, 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. Lots of marked trussed cards. Saw a rabbit twice in the chamise area but not sure whether it was brush or cottontail.