Field notes, v1525
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this stone wall that goes straight up the hill. at 3 pm put traps in this boulder slide ad along the wall, saw no mouse sign in the boulders but lots of feathers droppings along the wall, plus a few very old small hystricognathus droppings, a mixture of dead, kopek, Sherman, and MS traps. Acuta (cut) traps near the road. Then drove back to Color Cera. On the way, a turtle was stuffed along the road at the edge of a marshy area. Two men were trying to stuff a meter-long snake into a news follo without touching the (dead) snake. We stopped to admire the snake, the bogged us close seen, and they gave it to me. They said it was stealing avutarda eggs - but it had none made. The men had two very large eggs that they said were fresh avutarda. Came off at Color Cera under the willows, walking here but the ruins of a house, a road to the with (locked gate), and the ruins of a cable crosses the big river - obviously used to be a ferry. Put out traps in sacody-bushy tobit near comfort around the abandoned house (walls). Lots of feathers droppings and mouse tracks in the sand. Leaf cutter ants was not actual at sunny