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Calbreath
1942
S. Fork Mt. 4 mi N. Mad River Rd., El 3160 Trinity Co. Cal.
Jan. 23.
stream near the junk pile for a skunk.
Because of heavy rains this morning I
did not leave camp until 9 AM when the
storm began to break. The storm during the
night brought snow down to 4000 ft.
While it did not rain hard it rained almost
continuous all day. During the short
spells between showers the birds were
extremely eager to feed.
Leaving camp I circled around and
down to the Mad River to check our live
and snow traps sets. I caught one
Olethronomy which was the third of its
kind taken in the same trap. The trap
was placed under a tang of 4-12 inch
pole size douglas fir that had fallen out
into an open clearing made by a spring
temp. I also caught one Microtus and
3 Reacomys mic in other traps.
Chickadee-backed chickadees and the finchlets
were feeding every place in the Douglas Fir
cove. One pileated wood pecker was
taken from the lower part of a douglas
fir while it was feeding.
Just as I look out of the timber on to
a large glade one jackrabbit was seen as
he ran from cover under the manzanita.