Do Val, E.H. 2002 Journal Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui, Panama' 3 April 2002 Today was one of those varied, successful days that makes being in the field so much fun. Julie and I settled at WEL3 in the morning, where the nets have been up but closed for more than a week. We caught two DMs, neither of which were familiar to me. It's possible that in areas like WEL3 where there is no cleer beta there is a higher-than-normal rate of visitation by floater DMs. Because of the difficulty of band-reading, our sampling will certainly be biased toward resident males. We closed the nets due to sun at about 11:00 am, I went to place screening under a few nests for the seed collection experiment that we hope to write up as a short methods paper on determining nest stage. The trend of birds re-nesting in the same area seems to be continuing this year. We found two new nests by SL01, & put a screen under one of those that's still under construction. Ryan's R-A became R-1, now containing 1 egg. It's in the same exact place as R-1 last year, WOW's nest. Julie & I each did a watch in the afternoon. Mine was at the "new" (newly named - I've known of it for years) display area now dubbed HELICONIA (or "HEL"). I saw an unb DM consistently present in that high way, & APY (on).