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P.A. Kelley
1987
Journal
Sat.
26 Sept
Got up at 4.30 am and headed out to
check & close my traps. Had fairly high
trap success :- caught 18 woodrats
in all. I also caught 4 immigrant
adult O>>O at H-tes. 117, 201A, 210 & 134.
So this a >> response to the ♀ reproductive
response to acorn abundance. At 0453 PST
a noisy pig passed me by on Haystack
while I was working on a new >> at H-ze 117,
hovever
I could not find that same pig when I
went looking for it again about an hour
later. I did find an owl pellet, beside one
of the telegraph poles on Haystack Hill path,
with the dentaries and some bones from
a juv Nestoma (Cat# : PK 172).
Skinned the head of the pig in prep for
transport back to Berkeley tomorrow ( with
the meat )
5.30pm Started setting traps at specific house
for selected ( i.e. missing ) woodrats. At
H-ze 98, I found a partial skull (Cat# PK173)
with well worn molars ( from a lge old O ? )
left on top of the trap I placed there on
Thurs. evening. A gift from the current
occupant (O) 1192 ? ) .
More surprising however was the
discovery of an active mouse immediately