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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