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Shaefer
1958
Journal
page 10
Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou Co., Calif.
Told by Mr. Lombardi that Ferrers had an alfalfa field,
hovever his place was pretty rundown and the
alfalfa field was gone. There were still gophers
though so I set out traps (5 doubles, 1 single)
We then returned to the hatchery
and continued putting up gophers. About 8:20 PM
we went to a small pond on the western edge
of the hatchery property to shoot bats. We
were accompanied by Ray Hill, the 19 yr. old
door of the hatchery supervisor. The first
bats appeared about 8:55 P.M. I got two
shots, one at a large bat, one at a Myotis, but
missed both. Young Hill had better success -
4 for 5. One Soriomyotis and 3 Epterus.
We also picked up a Citellus beechyi from
a skylux trap one of the other local boys had
set for us (Bell). Skinned until midnight
Altogether we have put up 46 gophers from Lombardi's.
June 15
Update this A.M. Checked traps at the
Ferrers Ranch. These gophers proved to have
a shorter beak and to differ in other
characters also. It would seem they are T. m. montanus.
Therefore we set out a total of twenty traps
a piece. We returned to the hatchery and skinned
until 5 P.M. Then we went for dinner at the
Hill's home.
At 8:45 four of us went out shooting (Mr. Hill, Ray