Pearson - 1997 11 Lorenzo has 5 captive-reared condors in holding cages in Valle Encantado and is going to release them with radio collars. They each eat a hare per day. Dentist today; root canal tomorrow. One of the Abro longi had lungs that were not only very dark and hemorrhagic, but peppered with little hard white spheres. 19 November.- Yesterday at Lago Guillermo, we killed two big queen yellow jackets. The Scotch broom is in fairly full bloom, but not maximum; the lupine not at all. The Notro in town is starting to bloom. Abel Basti came by; wants photos for La Manana. In the afternoon we drove to Liao Liao. Scotch broom in full bloom in places. Could find no seedling coihue. The crowd of saplings along the road beyond the Hotel range from 1 to 3 inches diameter; there must have been a good mast year at that time. Talked with the Guardaparque Municipal in the cabin on Lago Perito Moreno. He was seeing lots of mice crossing the road a month ago, fewer now but still some. No corpses on the beach, but some mice ran up the hawser of his boat tied up at the edge of the lake, jumped into the boat, and couldnt get out again. A half-dozen or so. He says the ratada is due to the flowering of the bamboo. The mice eat the seeds, get thirsty, and go to the lake looking for water. Then he showed me a clump of dead bemboo next to his house, with dried flower heads, and pointed to others across the road. These were the only flowered bamboo that we saw all day. He noted an unusual scarcity of chimangos (noted by other people also); says that mice were poisoned at Liao Liao and at Villa Tacul. We saw no signs of mice while walking the trails near Lago Escondido. Tea at Belleville. The Senora says she has seen only a few mice, not colilargos (Oligoryzomys). 20 November- We went with Adrian Monjeau and Nadia Guthman to Villa Angostura. Maria Busch and David Bilenca from Buenos Aires were there, had been invited by the Neuquen Public Health people to comnsult on the mouse problem. We were greeted by Dr. Garcia from the Hospital and by Gustavo Pasalacgua, a local host of some sort. The idea seemed to be to get support from Neuquen for a mouse study of some sort by Guthman,