Field notes, v1304
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Greene, A. 1981 9 February sets of cat feces, one on the road (continued) near the parking lot and one near the top of the trail to the archery range - both seemingly full of microtus. Next drove around to other entrance and walked to the lagoons. Saw plenty of newts, but not nearly as many as yesterday and they seemed more wary. Seemed that I saw more towards mid-pond than yesterday. 20 February Briar Regional Park, Cortina Costa Co., California Went to the Alhambra Valley entrance w/ graduate students and Zool 107 class. Cool, sunny, very windy. Met at 0800, walked to lower lagoons, where we saw many fewer Taricha than two weeks ago - also saw well developed eggs, some hatched masses, and some eaten masses. Several Hyla regilla pairs and a few egg masses. At the second pond, a Rana aurora (?) egg mass ~40cm from shore w/ tadpo hatching - whole clutch is ~1 round, floating, ~20cm diameter. At the larger Simodeitch lagoon no Clemmys but many Taricha - again it looks like this pond is delayed relative to the