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Wyeas Plain
1973
Journal
114
4:60pm New Villa Mayerly Rd, Dept. Boqueron,
Paraguay
8 April pigs peccary carcas, dysete carrying a
flour sack to some sort of carcass. We have been
told that deer like to come out & see themselves
along the road after a rain. Pigs too?
What a pleasant campsite! No mosquitoes or
bitersome insects except an abundance of ants.
cod pleasant.
PM- set out we met over the small noodle
pd. all traps set - includ 19 live traps.
cought 5 Norctilio, 1 Myste, 2 Molossops, & one
Desmodus in its net. Closed it at 11 PM.
rat trap at 10 PM, caught 4 wood rats.
cold - temp 66°F at 10 PM. cleared at about 9,
med - of south wind
9 April only we more woodrats snaptaps
several traps sprung &
dragged, one w mouse just spilled in it. fate?
3 mice in live traps, 2 phyllostins & one calebant.
Lots of stuff blooming - quelbracho, palo
Verdecho, cactuses of several types, & others.
some quelbracho w fruit some cactus w prickly
pears. The live traps were set low along
an unused dirt road leading thru beautiful
forest. Some of the trees were 6-7 fts wide in
dia. Must be sweet. Bene ground scrub
of spiny shrub & bromeliads. Quelbracho, palo