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Pearson
1981
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seed beds, serious problem while deer eating newly-
planted seeds. Trucas eat roots of Scotch Pines
up to 10 or more ft. tall, but not hedged. Hares eat
various species, and elk (red deer) kill or damage
others with their antlers, Arturas has been here 5 or
6 years; frost has gotten the apple crop every year.
No mares here (although Butterman had a pet one
for a while), Cattle of horse (could shoot 40 in one
evening). Calf quail but no martins or ternaries.
No guinea pigs, lots of fakes (red). Numerous thumps,
a carando, a cardo, an eagle in the cliff above camp,
where I found a few owl pellets and a mouse band.
Added 10 more shrews to my birthdown line and
labeled them and the other shrews on the line with
clover (green, green).
Dec 3. Three of fruit. Clear, no wind, my dove had 2 aukisongs,
10 also longs, and 1 baby real (in the woods). Anita had
7 also longs, 1 Ratthas, and 1 Ornygump? Total for 2 nights
and 1 day, 3 1/8 trap nights = 55 also longs, 9 aukisongs,
1 also toshho, 1 Ornygump?, 1 Ratthadern, 1 Real. Saw
only a few longarts.
Sawed band on adult nearby, probably
Rallus sanguinolentus.
Put out 6 mousebaits for truss-tunes in pine plantation,
at 10 a.m.
But more careful when we left at 11:30 a.m. The
mouse species was much more affected than shrews,
but steel jump traps were much more affected than
either of the others. Returned to Barbados mid-day. Sunny.
The foxes and owl pellets picked up at the base of the