Field notes, v1524
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Pearson 1981 65 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