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Neyers
Pue
1973
Journal
270 km NW Villa Hayes W, Dept P.G. Hayes, Paraguay.
Pató linagado (muscovy ducks). Some wild animal
is killing chickens & the lim got another sheep.
Weather clear, warm (see chart, but 6 PM temp 20°<)
sl N wind. Sat by roof at 5:45-6:30PM. A few
(perhaps 15 or 6, but nearly impossible to tell) lizards
came out. There do seem to be a fair # of vespertilionid
& molossid flying, although # than in past.
There have been many x more. Almost no insects
flying. Very few mosquitoes.
2 Brief walk with Alvarenga out by the river
after dark. Many caymans - in one sweep of
the lantern I saw 9, # including one that must
be at least 4-5 ft long, judging by the space between
its eyes. Nothing else.
(17th) Up & out at 5:30AM, 45 minutes before light. Walked
over the dam to the old cheero on the other side of
the river. Saw 2 deer. Lots of ducks. Many
lucky birds. Tracks. Warm, 5:30 temp 12°<, mod N.
wind.
8:30 AM - started in lifting logs off palm roofs. First
did low sheepshed. Caught 5 bats. All too torpid to
fly, but after 5 minutes or less in the sun they
took off. See face of roof all (there are now only 5-6 logs
into NE face). Then went to high sheepshed
which had produced roosting last time. 3 BKI
mopicans, all on N side. They hardly tipped at all!