Field notes, v1531
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Pearson - 1995 11 condor cliff at Marful's there were at least a half- dozen. Home at 9:00. Saw only 3 squashed hares, one live one. Numerous armadillo burrows. November 22.-Minimum temp. <50. Went up to ECOTONO but nobody home. Dissolved a chunk of amberat from the cave at the end of the terminal moraine on Estancia La Primavera. It contained no bones, mostly small black gunk that might be disintegrated Phyllotis pellets, plus some pieces of plant matter that look like grasses. Christie came by with a dead Ctenomys sociabilis from Eileen's study area. It was a lactating female. Eileen says there are 35-gram young on her study area, so she does't like to trap right now. Christie is going to update his distributions of mammals in the Park area and submit to SAREM. 23 November.-Minimum 45; sunny, not windy. Dinner with Christie. 24 November.- Left Bariloche about 10 a.m., partly cloudy, a few drizzles. Two condors on the cliff at La Fragua, one of them an adult, one, at the entrance to a neat little cave, all black. The two were not at the same place on the cliff. Camped in the mima field east of the road. Only two squashed hares between Bariloche and here. Picnicked for lunch in a group of willows near Pilcanyeu Viejo, and saw three rheas there; no others along the route. I put traps along the rimrock from 3:30 to 6:45. Mostly sunny, breezy. 5 steel trap, 10 cage traps, 22 Shermans. Plastered the amberat place with traps. Calceolaria blooming and some green bunchgrass, but pretty dry. Lots of viscacha droppings, some of them dry-but-fresh looking, on exposed rocks, but did not see or hear any viscachas. Also put 4 Shermans at so- so holes on mima mounds. Anita put 10 Shermans, 19 Museum Specials, and 4 steel on the way up the rocky slope and along the base of the rimrock. Just before dark we went up to the amberat cave and sat with the night vision goggles hoping to see some action. A Phyllotis got caught in a Sherman while we were there, just as the first stars were coming out. Saw nothing else. 25 November.- Night clear and calm, but cloudy at 6:30 a.m. Frost on the windshield. 4 or 5 Bandurria ibises fed in the dry sparse weeds among the mima