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Hall
1955
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June 21 Sagehen Creek, 3 mi. NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif.
Upper lodge. Saw Aud: warbl. + red-breasted
sapsucker. Marking schedule: none!!
V. unusual. Two 2"ers should be marked
in last fall's schedule. Left 10:45
June 22 Arr. on seat 6:35 PM. Weather clear but
very windy as it's been all day. 6:50
spotted beaver coming down the "middle
channel" above main pond. He crossed
over into the N channel pond where he
gets an asp branchlet, recrosses in to
middle channel + disappears upstream.
Got two good looks at tail which was
notched: ( ) which is the "female" 2yr-
old caught + marked here Aug 8 last
summer. At 6:58 another beaver, same
size first seen in same part of N chan-
el where the first one got asp branchlet.
This one got asp. bark morsel from
bottom of pond + had strange habit
of raising its tail, arched, out of the
water while diving. Am fairly sure it
was unmarked but didn't get a very
clear view. It came down over dam into
main pond + dives into lodge. 7:10
beaver seen in "moat" N of lodge
where it stands up to bite some asp
off trunk of a 10" tree felled over the