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P.A. Kelly
1987
Journal
Oct. 31 (cont.)
Had to go into Carmel Rancho in the morning
to get some more wood glue for the Trap
shelters as well as food supplies.
Assembled 30 more trap shelters in the
afternoon. Connie Adams helped me
distribute them and set traps at H25
79 to 126 (incl. 130, 132 + 134). Finished by 0545.
Sun.
Nov. 1 0500. Picked up Connie at the Bunk H2e and we
proceeded to check and close all 60 traps.
The trap shelters seem to be a roaring
success. I may even have increased the
odds of catching any given rat. We caught
20 woodrats at 19/30 houses (double
capture at H6). Had another new O (1527-28,
213g) immigrant at H.109. I also caught
a new 179g F (1525-26); I think she is
probably the daughter of F/145-46 who was
last. (I had a juv O (1505-06)) on Sept. 25.
F 171 has disappeared from H.103A since
Sept. 27 and has been replaced by F 1453-54
from H. 101A elsewhere. We also collected 18
more packets of fecal pellets - F/145-46 left
no fecal pellets in the trap shelter. The count
this time was from 1 (F/1453-54 @ H.103A) to 257
(F 197-98, O 1507-08 @ H.116).
In the morning I put another twenty
trap shelters. Then Connie helped me