Field notes, v1313
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Aug 19 Humboldt Co., Calif.- a Red-Tailed Hawk and Turkey Vulture. Leaving the Bald Hills just north of Coyote Peak, we cut NE to French Camp, about 2 miles NE of Coyote Peak. Set up camp there, in a open park of Incense Cedar Libocedrus decurrens and Douglas Fir. Between 4:30 Pm and Dark I heard or saw Red Crossbills, Steller's GJay, Chestnut-backed Chickadee and Red-breasted Nuthatch. Looked for Bats at dusk, but no luck. Before evening I set out 25 Snap Traps-stating under a mine bark Physocarpus capitatus, working across a grassy meadows, and then up among a rocky area covered by the a thicket of Tan Oak Lithocarpus densiflora. Under the tan oak was poison oak, much leaf litter and fallen branches. Aug 20 French Camp, 3 miles NE Hwy101, Cal. Made no round of my mammal traps, got 9 Peromyscus maniculatus, 1 Sorex sp?, 1 yng Neotoma fuscipes. After shinning the Sorex I went out, crossed the meadow N of camp and went up on the ridge. Near the top it opened out to loose Douglas fir forest with practically no under brush. Saw two