Field notes, v1726
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A.C. ZIEBLER 1959 JOURNAL Poker Flat, 5000'ft, 12 mi. NW Happy Camp, Siskiyou Co., Calif. Aug. 13 Light frost on flat this am. Got only a Perom. Maniculatus + an Imm. Argen (maybe not Maniculatus) in live. A few deer along Cams loop w/o. Shot 3 Eutamias bred of came about noon today. Saw bled birds + drew 6 nuthatches, chickadees, juncos + 2 vireos (?) (white eye-ring, olive back + yellow breast). Caught 2 Thomomys in am. Collected water beetles in pond in flat - many back- swimmers + several Odonata larvae seen. Many grasshoppers in flat - caught a dozen + killed them - will pin to press to try to get shadows to wires. Will move ear years to new locations to try for flying sq's again tonight. Added a piece of the origo fruit on Eutamias to each of the 5 ear years + the two schuylers. Got 2 good shots at birds at dusk but missed both. Saw only 3 ducks. Aug. 14 3 adult + 2 yo. A. Maniculatus in yard line - only one on the grasshopper bait. Collected a large abilio-like fry attacking a long-horned beetle this am. Heard what might have been a chickadee at 11:am. but never saw it. Moved live of years along stream up into woods in pm. Traps in flat moved to new locations nearby sink in shrubs in wetter parts of flat.