Journal Nov. cont HWHR, Carmel Valley, Monterey Co., California The pond is little more than a muddy crater with murky water in the bottom (~15m across). A variety of insects were noted in the water, including Dytiscus beetles, Notonectids, and a bright red critter with a brown clam-like shell ~2cm long that could open the shell and swim by kicking it's 8 or so red legs. I never learned its name. After the net was up, ~1630, Willie and I stopped at the barn to get 8 Sherman live traps. While there, we turned over the logs in the woodpile and found 3 Ensatina eschscholtzi (2 juv.), 1 juv Aneides sp., 1 Eumeces skiltonianus, 2 juv Sceloporus occidentalis. We set 5 Shermans under the large lone oak near the gopher fields (mentioned earlier-see map) - 3 around a large Neotoma nest and 2 at entrances to a smaller one - and 3 more around another nest in some brush near the stream close by. Returned to the dining hall. (Shermans were baited w/ peanut butter). ~1800, class went to check mist nets. No captures. 1 Neotoma cinerea had been caught at the smaller nest under the oak tree. It was taken back to the dining hall. After dinner, ~2000, a collar made from a hospital ID bracelet with an F01-G-210 beta light attached was put around the neck of the Neotoma. The sky was clearing by this time and we tried out the night vision scope