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Rock lizard ambient
3/22 7:10 a.m. 39.6 +4.0 full sun on Festuca night roost
7:15 20.6 (removed)
=21.6 met but in
7:25 his pad, full sun, a few pats of
soil nearby.
additional celebrations on telemeter #4 (formerly under rock,
now in teod). 3.5° = 19.7/40, 0.2° = 24.4/40, 6.3° = 16.7/40.
yesterday spent following telemetered lizard. hailstorm
in afternoon.
This morning (3/22) sunny and calm, but afternoo
rain rains. Followed telemetered lizard in morning, then
be held up. Telemetered a frog with no. 4 telemeter.
3/23 morning clear. Followed the telemetered lizard until he
woke up, then caught him. Sprayed him back,
which made little difference. Despatched him, saw
Sedocerus alticolus run stream. Put the legged telemeter
in a new tood and set with him until 6:34 when he emerged
from under his rock and disappeared before I could embated
the radio from its ground goal.
Weather from noon to 2 or 2:30 sunny and hot, followed
by cold rain until about 6 off and on. Hot enough so that the
lizards may have been feeding and thermoregulating.
Dissected Hypophylum burrow #1, a burrow used formerly
by our telemeter lizard overnight. It went down to a depth
of about 4", narrowed to a finger-sized hole, then opened
up into a large two tunnel with a dry grass, matted,
nest. See species account for Burrow no. 2.
3/24 Down to freezing again, morning clear, ants & Dose hunted for
telemetered toads but didn't find them. Packed up, stopped
in Caparo, then drove to Yavita Creek (13 km NE Tarata).