Field notes, v542
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May 23 Russian Sulek State Park, 500 ft., Mendocino Co., Calif. We picked up several Triturus in damp spots along the trail thru redwoods. Also found several large millipedes, black and yellow colored, in the thick carpet of dried leaves underfoot. Five-fingered fern, deer fern, and lady fern grew rampantly over the trail. I found the lower jaw to the sheep skull Viola picked up the other day on the road thru the pine barrens. Along the road we saw a Button Vires, several Allen Hummingbirds, a Bewick Wren. About 1:30 PM we came across 160 or more Band-tailed Pigeons roosting in Pinus muricata. These were tall old trees with gnarled, needle-less branches stretching skyward. Pigeons were roosting thickly over these and flew out with great whirring of wings as we approached. Examined traps set around along and atop North Trail last night and collected them up this time. Caught two Eutamias townsendii, one ♂ and one ♀, in traps baited with walnut and set on two large redwood logs recumbent amid thick tangle of blackberry, rhodendron, Vaccinium, Labrador Tea, bracken, chinquipin, Pinus muricata, Pinus contorta var. bolanderi, and Cupressus pygmaea. One was in same trap which caught woodrat yesterday – only not in the trap – merely struck and lying down beside log in grass and brush. Trap also hanging over side of log by wire.