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Carol Pearson
1569
Journal
3 July
Papa Leon Tree
look like excavation, but there was some soft, fuzzy
material at the mouth. The mouth was just the
wide area under the overhang of the rock, + the burrow
went back from this. The bird itself was pretty darn
plain, breast light grayish with maybe a central speckle, back
darker + brownish, sides pinkish or pale rusty. I'll need a better
look. No white in wings or tail when it flew, but perhaps lighter
outer tail feathers. Perhaps Geositta maritima.
A quite large hawk flew over watching me and then
landed on a sandy hill for awhile. All dark above,
chest + beginning of belly light tan with some speckles.
Molting some primaries. I don't think it has the shape
of beranoactus. While it was on the ground, standing, it
looked huge too, + showed whitish above the shoulder,
bird facing around the front of his neck.
In the afternoon 2-3:30 we went further up the valley
behind Papa Leon to a place 10 km. east NE Pucusana, 250 m.
Here is more rocky, steep hills, all lichen covered, more
lilies + other plants but not cactus. At the a
burrow of 2 owls were 4 pellets, 2 entirely of black
beetle parts, 1 for 2 with a couple scorpions and parts of
2 mice. The burrow was shallow + only about a foot
deep in the soil and didn't look very used. There was
lichen growing all around it, as elsewhere, + a rock
in the mouth of the burrow. Here I saw a pair
of perhaps miners - they'd fly from one slope to
another. Also heard a strange w-wwr! w-wurr!