AKP 1973 Tuesday March 13 - Aseguia camp above Tarata Spent the morning coping with the 50+ mice we brought up from the coast. Some skins, but mostly measurements and skulls. It is wonderful and green here. Sunny and clear this morning, so that it got pleasantly warm, as this afternoon the clouds started appearing and the temperature dropping. A couple of young visitors to camp this morning - they really came after water, but Alfredo (aged 8 years) spent a good piece of the morning together, and we had some lunch together. His father works on the road in Istiqua and he live with his grandmother, who is up the roof. He told us he saw some mice in the dairy breeds, and we could see them too - Bolomyo. But couldn't catch them. I also saw an Akodon along the aseguia. It is strange to see everything so green and blooming. The prominent composite shrub, which looked so dry when we were here in December, has flowers, and the leaves are green. There are a number of lunnos around the camp area, and lots of different kinds of birds singing. Wednesday March 14 Challapalca Got a fairly early start from the aseguia camp and headed up hill. Stopped at quenua plaza so O'Neil & Rae could cut up a piece of quenua tree and I changed solutions on the nice lungs from Lama. I spotted a pair of lapwings escorting their brood of three chicks and watched them