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Lord Pearson
1569
Journal
Poya Leon
3 July
Heard a few crickets.
We drove south at night 8pm-ish to the tillandsial so. of Chilea + Thereabouts, looking for the mice along the road. We saw one by luck, a Phyllotis. Also we saw spiders by their eyeshine on the Tillandia area + heard crickets there.
Around the house in the late afternoon:
Amazilia amazilia - all rufous tail, back, belly; greenish head, blue throat on one. Several on fig trees, but Pyrocephalus rubinus was chasing them. This v-flye. had bright red top of head and spot in middle f breast; breast otherwise pale pink.
Also shook lots of Eupelia coryza out f the trees.
Lots f Z. copensis singing.
4 July
Up to 10 km ENE Pucensona to check traps first thing.
I picked up some burrowing out pellets from the a more-used burrow of the pair there. There were lots f scorpion type of <tules> on the rock by the burrows. The burrow was irregular, excavated for among the rocks, + lichen growing over most of the dirt at front, so it didn't look very used, although I think its this pair's main burrow. There was no garbage lying around, just some pellets with mostly insect parts + some small bones. One of the owls had a fairly dark head, while the other's head was light with "eye-light" eyebrows.
Rest f morning went to 5 1/2 km NE San Bartolo (Quebrada de Guy de Hueso). Nothing was in my traps.
There were fresh Burhinus? tracks (weren't there yesterday).