Field notes, v1522
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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