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P.A.Kelly
1983
Journal
4.
Oct. 28 Hastings Reservation, Carmel Valley, Monterey Co., CA.
left HVZ @ 10:20 on the Mammalogy Field Trip
to Hastings. Arrived around 2 pm after stopping
in Salinas for lunch and supplies. 3/4 the class
already made this trip last weekend.
Catty joined me on this trip to learn how to
set trap lines, and how to skin and prepare
specimens.
Around 3pm Jim Patton marched us up a huge
hill to the west of the buildings where we
trapped along a chaparral. Catty and I laid
3 Museum Specials at each of 5 locations (2,4,6,8,10)
in the dense chaparral. Joseph Lindahl did the
remaining 5 on that line. We baited with a
mix of peanut butter and oatmeal as at
Sagehen.
Before dark, Mike Cellerman and I also set a
line of 17 Sherman's - baited with oatmeal - in
the chaparral behind the schoolhouse.
The Calhoun line was not to be checked until
morning, but Mike and I checked the Shermans
around 9pm. We also checked 4 Comahawks we
had set for woodrat near the buildings.
Shermans:
2 Dipodomys venustus
5 Peromyscus truei
1 Perognathus californicus
Comahawks: 1 Nestoma fusipes (junv)
One of those Dipodomys was caught in the same