Field notes, v1703
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Thailer 1960 Journal P. 18 June 15 (sat) 3.2 mi. W, 0.2 mi. N Calpine, 5680 + ft. Sierra Co., Calif. Weedaceae. I took one more young M. longicaudus (restained) and a Peromyscus maniculatus. We returned to camp and skinned for a while. About noon I left the track to check gopher traps. I pulled all the set we had set getting a total of 5 T. monticola at the locality 5 W of Calpine. Then I drove back into the small valley that lies just W of the Sierra Valley and N of Rt. 89. I got out about 6 sets at a locality 2.1 mi. N, 0.3 mi. W Calpine, 4740 + ft. Sierra Co., Calif. Returned to camp about 5:00 P.M. Before supper I went out and shot a Hermit Warbler. After supper We Drove down to the Meadow (McNair) to shoot bats again. Tonight our luck was poor. Very few bats were flying around and neither of us got any but Pete Schreiner shot a Poor will that I put up. Returned to camp and skinned until about 11:30 P.M. June 16 3.2 mi. W, 0.2 mi. N Calpine, 5680 + ft. Sierra Co., Calif. I got up early this morning, about 6:15 AM and went out W of camp to collect birds. I got three, a fox sparrow, a hermit warbler and a common Snipesucker. There are lots of birds around this camp including Swinsons, and MacGillivray's Warblers, Oregon juncos, Holden crowned Kinglet, Pileated Woodpeckers, Red-shafted flickers Calliope Hummer, Western Wood Pewee, Empidonax (sp?), Swainson's [Pusset- backed] Thrush, Red-breated Nuthatch. After breakfast we picked up our traps in McNair Meadow checked my gopher sets of yesterday and got 3 T. monticola. Then headed