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spreads through this ichu & Chiquiá area and some rocks
at 3 pm - cool, windy, sunny. all habitats
more or less similar. small rocks slide over the slope
has 2 armored visaceas (key shot one non-frog?)
July 27 morning cold, calm, clear. My traps had 1 Abdon lobensis
and 1 Colopus dirillo. Others had same plus Phyllotis darwinii.
Windy got Ph paitera. Nearly full moon.
Flipped rocks & boards during AM, but only catch was a
calomys elrodus under a boat hull at the edge of the
lake. Drove back to Papa Juan.
July 28 no garúa. Visited area in a.m. and re-weighed/plants to see
changes due to humidity etc:
#21 343 gr. #14 248 gr.
#32 392 #18 448 gr.
11 AM wet bulb 60:63. #20 118
#26 160 = 84% #1 308
#6 294
12:30 noon; wet bulb 59:62½. morning cloudy.
Picked up footscats between grid and Calbuco Dero; a few fruit
seeds, but mostly mouse fur and teeth of a very old Ph darwinii and
one or more house mice. Flushed 2 Burhinus off the south
edge of the grid; They flew together, landed in the middle of
the big dry wash, and walked slowly and nervously along together.
Looked up about 50 Burhinus? pellets on the area and they
contained: large numbers of insect remains like those of
Storopelmatis but smaller, some scorpion claws, a few
greco bones, assorted chitinous plates & legs.