Nancy Phil 10.14 Journal 13 Anacle Bay, Isla San Cristobal, Galapagos, Ecuador 24-26 Jan Land care must cut vegetation drastically. Uplinkers it must be even wetter. U & G got a net had very bad luck until Nancy & Helen tried tying crackers into one of the nets. They caught birds very quickly. We saw many finches but here they appear to move in flocks blocks in [illegible] at lower elevation, they were also in flocks but they are less dense concentrated so that either net right catch birds at any time. Up here we'd find finches in large #'s, but by the time we got the net up the flock would have moved on. There is a third sp of gecko up here, Gonatodes? bauri? . It is probably recently introduced by man. Medium sized (->3"), yellow head & dark gray body. Partly diurnal, low foral mostly on tree trunks. John says they are communal nesters (perhaps due simply to limited # of appropriate sites) & he found a match box filled eggs. Very hard shells. See no tropelurus up here. Most of us left at noon while kids down at the beach in a pickup. Nancy & Helen stayed until 5:30, got a few more birds in net set nearer to town (generally speak; we see more finches near human habitation). Certain in progress we saw more in the schoolyard (Escuela Carlos Darwin) than anywhere else. This