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1975
Hastings Reservation
May 29
To Hastings with Angel & Stormo. @rround 3 PM, PDT sunny + warm. Oak still green under oak but dry or almost dry elsewhere. Set all 3 calbourn lines.
Alderostera not quite in bloom. Is spreading outward (by growth of existing bushes, few seedlings), a few holes and runways along the meadow line but more really sapre. Griffin has been harvesting grass pellets in this woodlot and seeing numerous micrutes there. Parvace, Griffins, and Reets all say lots of Peromyscine in houses. Oak line until a few interesting holes.
May 30
Night clear, light dew. Rantrope 5:30-8:00 PDT.
Lots of mice + Californias in chaparral, nothing in oaks, no hatters or micrutes. Day sunny and warm. No birds in traps during the day (or mice). Picked up carnivore droppings on the chaparral line, a fair number but more fresh, mostly quite old but since December when I picked them up on previous censuses. No carnivore tracks on the road. Bradford arrived 8 pm.
May 31
Night clear, trace dew. Rantrope 6-8 AM. See summary, especially Oak with Perogasthus, mice, and californias. It seems to be a year of leucine californias. Still no micrutes. Have seen white both evenings. Day sunny and warm.
Picked #5 cats on rest of lines.
June 1
Night clear at first, then scattered local fog. Some dew. Rantrope 5:30 a.m. For summary see next p.
Saw no carnivore tracks but heard 1 foot.