Pearson - 1998 3 Villa Tacul road. It goes through fairly open coihue forest, passes one big meadow, then comes to another meadow with several roads branching off in different directions, but several go down to the beaches and have lovely picnic places and fire places. We stopped at a beach near where a stream enters the lake,backed by a slope of enormously tall coihues, bamboo understory. The road and electric line continues on to a big home, and other homes visible on other slopes. The old ruined concrete buildingout on the point is still there but none of the roads seemed to go to it anymore. I put out 22 MS and 22 Shermans; thee near a trash container at the campsite, about 15 along a road leading to the lake and to an occupied old cabin. The road was lined with Rosa, escaped cherries in boom, old and escaped apple trees, Scotch Broom, some huge old Lombardy poplars with many "nests" of blooming quintral. Thren set the rest in dense grass, ungrazed meadow. Rosa was invading aggressively around the edges, big conifers limiting one side of the meadow, and threeor four huge felled conifers out in the meadow, being surrounded by rosa. They were 60 years old, grew out in the open, and had been cut maybe 5 years ago. Anita set along our road. She set in rosa and other bushes, then out onto a grassy meadow with lots of rosa. She set 27 MS and 27 Shermans. Then we pulled into a side branch into coihue/cipres forest with bamboo understory; a few arrayanes. The afternoon was sunny and windy, many tero-teros in a nearby marsh, and a pair of owls barking near our sleeping bags. The calls were a mixture of barks and churrs; ?Strix? One of them barked again later during the night. Saw no signs of mice when I got up in the night. Night clear. October 30- Roosters crowing in several directions in the morning (sunny, warm, calm. Morning sunny, no wind; a touch of frost in the grassy meadow, but soon warming up. A clump of dead bamboo near our sleeping bags had bloomed 1 or 2 years ago; it had a hundred culms, all of them small. My 21 MS held 1 Oligo and 1 Abro longi. My 21 Shermans held 4 Abro longi and 1 Abro oliv. Anita's 27 MS held 1 longi and her 27 Shermans hekl'd 2 longi. Summary: 96 trap nights; 1 Oligo =1% trap success, 8 Abro longi = 8%; and overall trap success 10 mice = 10.4% . Dissected the mice at Villa Tacul (but released the Abro oliv.). Dissections revealed no fat mice, all big (and old?), all breeding. A completely different picture than last year. While we were skinning, a female hummingbird came to a 3/4-dead big cipres in fron of the car, entered a hollow in the trunk about 5 feet above ground, and stayed there about half a minute dipping her head again and again. There was no moisture there, a few blobs nearby of dry resin, but lots of a dry white encrustation. Nothing burned. Was she looking for