Pearson - 1997 4 once. Morning low fog. Anita's traps had 3 Oligoryzomys, all small. 2 escaped, 1 saved. The forest here is essentially lichen-draped nire trees, lots of them big ones. A few cipres mixed in, one radal noted. The nire leaves are just coming out, so it still looks wintery. A few coihues on top of the knoll behind camp, but the slope across the river is solid coihue. The commonest Berberis are the yellow-floweered fragrant one and darwinii. Teroteros in the meadow, a lone grey-necked goose standing guard in the meadow, wrens singing, fio-fios singing, ibises gone over, Zonotrichia, lots of "creepers", have seen no gulls. Broke camp and made one more walk along the beach. Found one more Oligo (it was not there day before yesterday). Also noted lots of seed spikes of Weinmannia (tineo) washed up on the beach. Food for mice? Have seen no tineo trees growing here. The administrator's grandson, who had helped find the beach carcasses day before yesterday and who said there was bamboo flowering "higher up", when we asked him again, he disappeared and came back a half-hour later with a dead, flowered, bamboo cane. He also had gathered a abundle of very large canes. He has a 2- acre pasture completely surrounded by a tight bamboo fence. He says that my informant yesterday was wrong; there were NOT more mice last year than this. The most mice were in 1964 when there was a widespread flowering of the bamboo. There are a few rauli Nothofagus here also, and at least one lenga. Then drove to Willink's house, the Parkguard at Lago Espejo, but he was not there. Then to the beach at Hotel Lago Espejo, which is about 1 km north of the turnoff to Chile. Found 12 carcasses on the beach there; all Oligoryzomys. Discarded one stinky one, the others not too bad. Forgot to mention Anita's 8 Shermans near the tent last night. They caught 3 Oligo (islands of chaura/Berberis/nire, surrounded by turfy campsites. Two of them escaped; I processed the other. Then drove to Park Headquarters at Villa Angostura. Nobody there except a firefighter who knew little about the mouse situation. All the others were