Field notes, v1522
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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).