Field notes, v4228
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Rinto, Dear 2011 Journal Aug. 11 Corro San Hil, Depto. Chiquimula, Guatemala (cont.) ... same forest around 11:00 am that looked transitional between lowland forest and cloud forest. Ficus had no fruittresses, fewer palms, some bromeliads (small), a few tree ferns and more moss. We opened 17 bromeliads (13:00-13:40) and looked in some very good logs (11:30-12:30) but found nothing - only a single B. rubescens in a small bromeliad w/ little water. The other bromeliads, some of which scored quite good, had a lot of water in them. We began walking towards the high point of Corro San Hil, searching slowly along the way in logs and leaf litter, from 14:00 onward. There were tons of logs and the leaf litter was quite damp but cl found nothing, and neither did anyone else. Reached the peak around 15:30; took a brief rest & started searching again after ~ 15 min. Forest here had been cut for an army tower & looked and was secondary or regenerating; Carlos found a big tapir print. Clt began raining around 14:30 and continued (hard at times) until ~ 18:00. By 16:30, it was fairly dark and cool inside the forest and a chorus of Craugastor campbelli started all around us. Carlos got 2, Jon (guide) got 1, and cl found 2 but both escaped. They were calling from areas low to the ground and in the vegetation 1-2m off the ground; sounded like an unusual call for a Craugastor - 3 sounds/syllables (all same note) instead of a single "link". Carlos got a small, yellow Craugastor w/ expanded toe tips and cl got 2 Craugastor cophonus while Jon got 1 C. aphanus (all of which were on ground, not calling). We reached our lunch spot where we opened bromeliads by about 19:00, having searched slowly w/ lights along path starting at 18:00. Near the end of the forest, cl caught 2 of the small yellow Craugastor. While we were waiting to get a GPS point, Carlos saw a Leptotila stuarti on a leaf about 1m off the ground, just above a big rock.