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Gulletti
1949
journal
-115-
Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.
winged Swallow earlier in the day. After
dinner I shot at bats (once!) without
any success. In addition to the above
listed birds & heard Musclets flying
overhead early this morning, saw several
groups of Band-tailed Pigeons, heard one
Flicker.
Tried to collect a couple of
Crossbills, shot and missed a young
Waywing, heard Steller Jays Twice.
Aug 10 same locality - This morning went
over to the trap line I put out last
night - collected a Black-headed
Grosbeak on the forest edge - the
trap line produced 2 Sorex pacificus
and 1 Zapus trinotatus. Picked up
a Rana aurora along Maple Creek
about 100 yards below the bridge.
Returned to camp and shinned out my
take - one Sorex proved too battered
to be worth shinning. It cleared out
3:30 p.m. today - now at 4:30 it is clear
with a mass of medium high clouds
lifting in from the west.. After supper
I went back over to the bend in Maple
Creek (see next page) and worked around
there. 3 Nighthawks were circling
over the forested hill S of camp and