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ingsey
1980
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12 NOV Leadfield
the highest peaks popped in. Gray, windy, damp,
light hail and sprinkles as we ate breakfast.
Checked mine shafts (all of them) and found
no bats! Saw a Bewick's Wren, Chukars, Raven.
Helped Margaret with a transect, then headed
for home, defeated by the weather.
17-18 Nov Titus Canyon Rd at "entering Titus Canyon" sign ~4000ft
Arrived just as it was starting to get dark.
Set 100 traps: 80 Sherman's and 20 museum speckles
in alternate 2 and 3 trap stations. The 3-traps
stations had 2 Sherman's and 1 M.S., 2-trap stations
had 2 Sherman's. Stations 20 meters apart,
heading up Titus Canyon from "entering Titus
Canyon sign" for 400 meters (20 sets) and
down the canyon from sign, 400 meters.
Set line along S wall (going down) and W well
going up. Some traps in gravel wash, most
in rocks or on boulders. Considerable Bighorn
Sheep sign. Grass trampled, trails, droppings.
Nestoria nests in some of the rocky crevices.
Plants: Eriogonum 4 (rare) Mormon's petrophylla and
E. inflexus, Chrysosporianabrus, Atriplex sp., Brickella multiflora
Larrie
Birds: Cackels Queal, Jucoo, Black Wrens, Guadalupe
Raven
Herps: Uta stanketrigue in rocks 9PM.
Tried setting bats at Klare Spring 1830-2030:
caught 1 Pipistrelles in first half hour, nothing else.
Hard noises that sounded like Big Horn on cliffs
S of spring. Camped at Leadfield.