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J.G.Hall
1954
203
July 18 Sagehen Creek, 6500 ft, 3 mi. NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif.
R'slide 7:35 PM at upper ols. tree. Stayed till 9. No beaver.
8:40 pr. of "small" night hawks appeared flying low. 9:00 ? does down to drink.
July 19 Set 4 traps at Rockslide in afternoon. Poor-wills calling near our tent at 9:30 PM.
July 20 At 1:30 AM we heard at least 2 horned owls near our tent; one was low pitched or more or less "normal", the other was higher pitched & had a tremolo effect. 6:15 AM at the stream seep on lower road to main camp saw a pair of evening gros-veaks. This seep must have something special in it to attract birds. Almost every morning there are several kinds R'slide gathered there. At 6:45 checked traps to find one caught near sta. 21. It had two big bare areas on the back of its neck and one on the tip of its nose where the trap must have caught it. Pulled it in its trap up onto bank & went down to tell Clyde who was at the highway crossing. At 9:30 we went back down w/ Clyde to beaver in trap. He sexed it & showed Rick Hard & me how to do it. It was a male which he estimated as barely over 7 yrs of age, He weighed it in the trap & then the empty trap after the beaver was