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Jours!
14
15 May 1978. Sunday
5400'
N/E. El Calvario O.P. Zacapa, Guate.
Clear & dry; light breeze. No catch in net. Found records in coca field
in night an owl (?); single muffled grunt. Saw Caelipha blue jays
& Dendridae. Yesterday, big red bird woodpecker in bedroon. Sank! We
proceeded to descend to highway. Encountered no traffic. Acer woodpecker &
flicker at upper levels; vireo at bottom. About 1500', at bend + stream, a
motorist was on way up. Faintly tame. Had to go through locked gate,
w/ gatekeeper (we said friends of Flora). On to highway w/ his Honda, very
small town w/ no market. Then went S. to see garage + shop. Good
market; hot. Repaired 2 flat tires. Then look to highway E. + on to
Jerez river; walkedback 2 km. to side road to farm + went N. Sent
beetland habitat line along the way. Narrow plastered + white w. tile
1800'
roofs. At an settlement, road renamed (Espinillas?). We talked
w/ local men. They said road went up to Planader, where ranch of
Julio Vargas. We ascended road; steep in parts, dependent; 4 w.d.
esential. Wound up through houses + up to pinos, about 2700'.
Pinos burned + smoking, though roadside sign on tree urged fire
prevention. Spaced farm, mostly Eri't dehl. A summit at 4800'.
The down + up to 5600'. Oaks, liquidambars, second growth low
fascet. 5100'; occasional bamboos. Many old logging roads to NE;
rods
con + bean;
cuts in face slope. Again with liquidambar. Then got the farm; a
few Indian huts. Broadleafed mataora visible to N, down 5500'.
at 5800', a gate; then road down to Vargas home about 5500'. A few
Indian huts. Cattle. Cut over slopes w. mataora above. Large leafed
bamboos in trees. A clear stream. /Vargas, 35 yrs., at home +
friendly. Had 45 colomennas. Pini logging done, but new cutt-
ing levels in burn. Road continued up for 2 km. beyond house,
but only to edge of cut area. Sidewalk down to E. to another clear.