Field notes, v1362
Page 113
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Cooper, 1935 7 mi. E. Manjosa, Manjosa Co., Calif. August 11, golden piliated warbler, red-shafted flicker, valley quail, plain titmouse, California jay, brown towhee, spotted towhee, green- backed goldfinch, California woodpecker, slender-billed nuthatch, pallid wren-tit, bush-tit (flock of ± 15), black-throated gray warbler. Judging from trapping results of last night the species of mammals here are not too abundant. From 38 traps (13 rat and 25 mouse) set along the creek bed and under willows, poison oak and oaks & Peromyscus maniculatus only were taken. These four three mice and one Bufo, captured in a field of wild oats near the creek, constitute the total catch for the day. I saw two Entamias merriami running about on granite boulders under oak trees and caught the odor of a skunk. No other animals have been seen, though nests and droppings of wood rats and mounds made by pocket gophers are abundant. Mrs. Woodard says both the latter and ground squirrels (which can't be very abundant since none have been seen yet) destroy her garden and pot