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Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui Prov., Panama
5 May cont.
We also caught RBV, who had spiderwebs wrapped around the antenna of her transmitter but otherwise seemed to be handling it very well. No visible imitation of skin/feathers. I guess the spiderwebs explains the white stuff on BOY's antenna when she swooped past us yesterday.
M and I did two watches each (2nd Beach (1), BT (1), CC (4) + EDM (1)) and Kat did the radio tracking & nest-searched for the rest of the day. One nestling (the smallest)
May 2000 Overcast & still all day, storm of rain in the afternoon.
Kat and I did 3 watches each while Mark did telemetry & nest-searching. RBV (transmitter 1071) is the mother of two nestlings in K-16 (a nest we'd already found). Perhaps it's bad luck, perhaps it's a good sign that we're finding the majority of the nests. Mark stated M-9 and