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Gullion
1949
Journal
-152-
Aug 24 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.
- heard a Flicker calling from the bwn of camp. Also something, probably deer, crashing around in the woods just below the Black Oak area. Dropped on down to the end of my trap line in the Wiregrass clearing - took more Peromyscus, all brown - I was alive so I released it.
Caught 2 Gopher Snakes in the wire-grass - cracked my right knee missing another.
Heard Band-tailed Pigeons, 2 White-breasted Nuthatches and a Flicker. Going down the little stream after the flicker - which I didn't get to - I found a likely looking salamander area - collected 2 small Plecotus and 1 large Dicamptodon larva out of two pools. Came back up to the source of the stream, heard Chestnut-backed Chickadees in Chinquapin & Madrone - examined likely looking bat trees - found no bats. Collected the rest of my mammal traps, also a Scelogorus occidentalis.
Returned to camp, preserved specimens, put up a weasel - but left two from the 22nd, and a Crossbill taken yesterday. About 4 p.m. I went with Cogswell to Coyote Peak. Saw a covey of about 18-20 Mountain Quail at the turn of the road. Further on, on the bald top, saw a Sparrow Hawk.