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at 7 p.m. (cloudy + cold) we string 3 nets across the front
of the garage. Stood watch until 9:30. Saw insects flying and
numerous bats flying. One & caught in net before we left at 9:30.
Temp. in Bariloko at 10 p.m. was 9 1/2 °C.
Oct-31 morning partly cloudy. Temp. at 8:30 AM was 10 1/2 °C. Fourteen &
mystics in the nets. The local caretakers (Paulo + Antonio and
spouses) say that there were more bats in the net at 11:00 p.m.
that they were escaping, and so they killed the remainder.
None visibly pregnant; none fat; all with full stomachs. Three full
stomachs together weighed 2.2 g.
Left about 2 p.m., drove through Bariloko then turned
Pilearijen. The RR station at Mirihuan is near a deep narrow
canyon with an arched wooden bridge. Too many Sunday picnickers
and a soccer game to stretch nets. (Station master not there either).
Drove to the next station, through bunchgrass and "pinion-
juniper," and stopped there. Station surrounded by willows +
poplars, good cliffs nearby, a shallow lake of several acres with
ducks, lorburinas, [illegible] reedwips, etc. Nobody around. I put
out about 20 traps in bunchgrass-rock-bushes and a few
among railroad ties. A few small, all-yellow calceolarias
blooming on the knoll where my traps are. Found one with nibbled
lips, partly healed. Evening windy. One net across end of lake.
Night was clear without wind, but overcast at dawn. Nothing in
nets. Traps held 2 Phyllosotis and 2 red-bushed long-nosed shadon,
Temp at 7 a.m. was 6°C. Willows and greybirds just leafing out; a
robin (Turdus feldkandi) feeding fledgling. This station on the RR
is Lento Mexico, 25 km ENE Bariloko, no mice in the calceolaria
traps.