red Christmas berries. The weather continues to be unseasonably hot and there has been little or no rain. We trapped in three major areas, along the Santa Lucia trail, arand the upper parking lot and between Hoi's upper lot and the campground. The area is quite steep and the houses are less dense than at the previous Santa Lucia Preserve site. Many houses are tucked in small rock outcrops - I wonder if we won't trap some N. lepida. Dec 29 Checked traps this morning and got 6 males and 3 females. It appears that we may have lost some animals to a predator as a couple traps had the back doors