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Red Stone
1942
Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley Alameda Co. Calif.
March 1, 1942
After visiting our traps early in the AM (7:30-8:00) Walt + Peg Dolquest + I went along the top of the ridges which form the E+S borders of the canyon and collected "traps." Besides several Fictures and many Ameides lugubris & Batrachedeps which we did not collect, we got 11 Sceloporus gracil, 14 Euneces skiltonianus, 3 Herdovistus multicariatus, 2 Diadophis amabilis, 1 Contia tenuis, 1 young Coluberc. morron, 1 young Pituophlis, and one Eusatina eschscholtzii. Saw two Band-tailed Pigeons and a pair of Sharp-shinned Hawks which are usually present near the trap line. Some Brodocks and Calif. Poppies were in bloom as well as the first Zygadenus. A few butterflies, notably a Papilio (asthiars group) and a large blue were on the wing. Clear and warm later in the morning. Returned home about 12:30.
Saw one wood rat in a pile of Eucalyptus logs but could not get him because we couldn't move all the logs. A small Herdonotus m. was discovered sunning himself on a rock 3' high. It immediately jumped off and made for the grass in a manner more like a sceloporus.