Dunal, E. H. 2003 Journal Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui Prov., Panama' 1 May 2003 Today started sunny and quickly became overcast, raining lightly (but not enough to send us home) at 9:00 AM (<1/16"), The weather gradually cleared after about 9:30 until the day was bright and sunny again by noon. I was sitting at CCLS for the final alpha-male removal while Julie did watches at many sites. I finally gave up the a-male hunt at ADS, taking down the 2 remaining 6-4 nets that were there. As I set one of these near the latest CCLS dance perch, B44 (DM) - current alpha - finally flew into the net across the gully. I took hormone samples immediately (7 min after the net, 30 sec. to remove) and half an hour later, but his veins were damaged from the first bloodletting and the 30 min sample is very small. I attempted + failed to take blood from the jugular vein, and then killed him by thoracic compression. I prepped him as a museum skin in the evening. Two nests have hatched in the TCJS area since we went to David yesterday, and we staked those to get female ID's without much luck (Julie saw -_Y around the nest) The yellow-green vireos by Cabana 1 fledged today and have been noisily crying for food ever since. There's a large chick in the YGVJ nest by LH2. The bug swarm continued at night.