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May 7, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing took large [female symbol] and small [male symbol] flying squirrels
in tamarack swamp. In afternoon visited Loon Lake 9 miles
northeast of Newgate. Several large prairies on the way.
Redwing blackbirds, song sparrows and red-tail hawk nesting;
black-headed jay taken. Holboell grebes.
May 8, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Set line of traps at Loon Lake for voles in sphagnum
bog. Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing took small [female symbol] flying squirrel.
May 9, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing caught a single vole in the sphagnum. Looks
like M. [Microtus] drummondi [underlined]. None of my traps touched. Snails eaten,
also sedge. Set line for flying squirrels.
May 10, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Nothing in traps at Loon Lake. Shot [male symbol] redwing. Mr [Hamilton Mack] Laing shot horned owl and
[female symbol] cooper's hawk. I took [male symbol] Cooper's hawk. These were a
breeding pair. [female symbol] had double ovaries; owl had grasshoppers
and mouse in stomach. Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing set for flying squirrels.
May 11, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing took a large [male symbol] and [female symbol] flying squirrel and a
pocket gopher at Loon Lake. None of my traps sprung. In
afternoon I took 5 chipmunks on the bench at the west of
the Kootenay and north of the bridges. One juv. [juvenile] ground
squirrel.
May 12, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
Loon Lake, 6 horned grebes, 3 coots, 2 Holboell grebes,
1 pied-billed grebe, Sora. Mr [Hamilton Mack] Laing shot 2 blackbirds with
much brown. I shot a [female symbol] blackbird. Found mallards nest, 8
eggs. I set 20 small traps and Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing 17. No flying
squirrels. I took [male symbol] ad. [adult] ground squirrel.
May 13, 1930, Newgate, B.C. [British Columbia]
At Loon Lake, took a [male symbol] flying squirrel, small and very red.
Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing took a juv. [juvenile] vole and a peromyscus. Lifted all traps.
Examined prairies. Nothing but a few ground squirrels and jasper
sparrows. One sharp-tailed grouse. Heard a black-throated grey [words crossed out] Townsend [handwritten]
warbler.
Marginalia: STJA [Steller's Jay]
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