Field notes, v1522
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upata camp, 13km N of Tarata mark 26 Hithership lizard integrator and black body integrator (reading) at 6:30 a.m., temp. ~4°, they went down to the big craft to look for a big Gekkonids. Hunted long where I had seen 6 big ones yesterday and eventually found one near the big boulder close to the road. He was under a smallish 1-foot round boulder. Inserted integrator at 7:35 and returned him to under the rock. Under-rock temperature 4°. 7:55 - Emerged ½ way out is ½ in weak sun, shade temp. 42°, 5½° 8:03 - ⅔ out in sun. 8:05 - ¾ sun 8:06 - Sun went behind cloud and he crawled into the 2" circle between his rock and a much bigger one. 8:13 - partly emerged, but I frightened him back in, 8:25 - 48°, still cloudy, no open sun since 8:08. 8:28 - cloudy-cold but he emerged from under his rock ½ away. 8:36 - " " , re-emerged a little further, ¾ 8:53 - 48½°, cloudy. Sniped still ½ to ⅔ out and in so sun! 9:08 - tried 1 shot (min.) of filtered sun between 9:00 and 9:08. Sniped ½ after, 9:24 - air 50°, Cloudy, Dived ⅔ out. 9:37 - seemed inly cute. Air temp. 50° 9:44 - head + forelegs out of hole - which is really a shade of rock, cloudy light + wind. 9:44 - seems further - 2/3. 9:58 - mount I fell on. 9:56 - emerge very slowly - now all but tail in view. Cloudy windy 10:10 - all but tail out of hole. In last half hour only a few moments, 7 full sun. 10:22 - ⅓ exposed, a few moments of sun. 10:30 - air 54½°, 9:45 soil temp. 12°. 10:44 - sun again! I last fanned! 10:50 - air 55° 10:52 - sun 10:54 - now 1/8 ft proud. 10:55 - shade 11:02 - straddled sun. 11:10 - try to deflects - hemifaces around, wet; sniff at self or tail, raises pelvis. 11:13 - med dash + under large rock. 11:16 - ¾ out from above rock. 11:18 - all out - sun + clouds. Done with 11:45 - air 55° 11:55 - fairly bright sun for some time, sniped moved 1½ feet under big boulder. 11:40 - in a lab on the reef saw 5 small lizards and 3 big ones. 11:55 - ¾ out again.