Galapagos field notes, v579
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DeBenedictis 1964 23 Sun Ascension Bay, Santa Cruz Is. Galapagos. a wing out + fluttered, tail up display like the others. Very common as one goes higher. Saw 2-3 yellow warbler nests, wander to her high as I went c. 2-3 miles from the Horneman farm area. where we turned around it was very lush, with flowers and berries; Geospiza feeding on seeds and on low berries on the ground, often in flocks of 20-50. Took 2 pictures of flycatchers and 3-4 landscape from mid transition zone to mid dry zone. on the way down. camera says on shot #37 now. Much geospizine nest building. Nests easy to find. Insects very common in upper zone. Saw Phoebe, a blue (hycaenid), & Quercus sp., and 2 skippers, one? Urbanus galapagoensis. G. scandens was very scarce near where we turned back, as was Tropiculenus. Saw a Phyllodactyls in a dead log which Bob Pyle picked up at c. 150'. Got back about noon. Saw a large pelizinoe at the beach. Spent the rest of the afternoon packing for the pt. Espinoza trip. about 5:30 saw about 8 culindrub, a black-tailed flower and a large shorebird flew over. Hot. The marine biologists have been collecting like mad. Several large sp. of brittle star and 3+ sea urchins, the with long sharp spines. In the evening autorozo to be you collecting. took a large green spingid moth, lots of flies and beetles. Went to bed about 10.