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Carl Pearson
1969
Journal
4 July
Papa León Treee
which I followed through some Tillandsia + then
up off over the dunes for a good long ways
before I lost it. Up in the dunes, where there's
nothing but sand, I also saw mouse tracks.
The bird tracks for awhile followed the tracks
we had made the day before.
Down in the arroyos AKP saw hummingbirds.
We saw a sparrow hawk down in the lower
river bottom.
End of afternoon we returned to Quebrada Cuy de Hueso,
and I hiked up the ridge with Tillandsia to the dunes and
then up to the top of the mountain, Mt. la Chimbomba
we think. On the depressions on the lee sides of dunes
were collections of small snail shells of several sorts
and seeds.
sometimes cases of insect pupae AT the top of the ridge of
dunes were fox tracks, supposed Burhinus tracks, probably
mouse tracks, and tracks of some passerine (1 ½" long).
The passerine jumped + scratched along places where
sand was falling off the face of a ridge. Up beyond the sand
and on to the top of the mountain was fields of lichen
covering earthy or sandy or mixed soil. There were lots
of the small burrows with little piles of dirt at the mouth like
we see down on the flat. Saw a pair of sparrow-size
birds w blackish, short tail. Under a few rocks that were
at the top were several large crickets. Coming down
the steep, sandy face of the mountain, between two rocky
ridges, I saw lizard tracks. On the rocks I found 2
lichen-covered