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is coming up to wheat?, a few inches high. Several
spects sitting around but found no good burrows
(although several looked like they had been started
and were 1 1/2 to 2 feet deep). Lots of tucas out in
the plowed field. Found one good
burrow at the very edge of this
cultivated field a little beyond
where Tucis was troffing.
tucas. There were 5 or 6
spects sitting next this
burrow (2 squabbling).
also another burrow on the
baravea about 150 m beyond the end of the
torque of tadas that extends west from the road
went to town, then localized
two calls from 5 to 6, much of the
calling seems to come from "fisting"
holes opened since this morning.
night clear, morning warm sunny,
little wind. Some clouds in PM but
warm & calm. Tucas active and calling
all day but stopped at dusk 6 p.m., still calm.
Set 4 more works here in block soil for 3 hours and
cought 3 tucas. Also 2 steel traps during most of day caught
3 blue and 1 dead tucas.
Canuset tucas (fresh hole) bygining at 7:30 a.m.
then troffing with 6 workers in each of the 8