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April 6
Morning cloudy, about 2" of snow on ground, and
occasional other flurries of growing until about
11 a.m. Sun & scattered clouds after about 2 p.m.,
then evening cold after sunset.
My trapline above camp had 2 dead baby
Phyllos hardly big enough to be out of the nest,
and 2 old adults alive, but one of them later
cooled in the sun. The traps around the corral
across the valley were untouched. Moved them
to the snowbird huts, another corral, some
new traps in another rock outcrop up the
road, and effaced my line in the rock above
camp. Aunts has about 20 in rocks above
camp. Total about 90.
Saw several tenuous, herd them in A.M.
but not evening, saw two, anchoring both.
new camp learning to like watermelon (he was
badly startled at first stuff, then gradually accepted it).
Several others went near camp. A Trogonus
multiformis grabbed a piece of watermelon slipped to
him, cleaned it, then spat it out.
Evening cold & clear, all snow gone in valley except
in side of corral. Just about dark a few hail dropped about
2", another flurry or two during the night.
April 7
2" of snow in A.M., cloudy. My traps at the snowbird
huts had 1 chickalinks and 1 anchorage sublinis, neither
actually in a house, a small corral line nothing,
a small rocky tongue nothing. At 1 a.m. the original