Field notes, v1599
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Feb. 14, 1980 Berkeley to Hastings Reservation Monterey Ca. 25 mile 23 Nov several of us decided to set mon- folding live traps. We set 23 traps in deparral above the schoolhouse and baited them with rolled oats. It was 17:00 when we finished, and getting dark. We walked east to a little pond where Jim Patton had staked out a mist net, and we opened it up and waited for bats to come. Shortly, we saw several Myotis and one larger bat (probably lasiurus), but the full moon shed light, even with a cloud cover, so as to make the net visible to bats. They clearly avoided the net. We walked south to camp and ate dinner. At about 20:00 we checked the net again; it was empty, so we closed it up. It was so light that we could see very clearly details of the landscape and each other. Back at camp we went to check the live traps and found six trapped mammals, including a Nestoma fuscipes, a Sigmodon sanctus, a Perognathus californicus, and some Peromyscus maniculatus and truei. We brought these into the lab to show