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Rio Guilquique near San Martin Airport
Oct 13, 1980
There were complications of Ernie Schwiebert's imminent departure so we stayed close to San Martin. The cold continued with the worst wind we have yet had. During the day, from 10:45 AM until 5:15 PM we fished the whole river from the "lombardy square" to the three papules. Weibon taking a brown trout. Ed got one 15" rainbow. On this stream our friends fishing with Bill McCaffrey had fantastic fishing last week, with lots of fish over 20 inches. It afraid the weather has screwed me good.
I keep coming back to its abundance of European hare (or rabbits as we have been calling them). On the walk from the river to the road, about 1/4 mile through grassy bottoms, we jumped 7 rabbits, at saw more from its car when Jorge jerked me up. Also met another armadillo on this walk, same size as the one we photographed a week ago. Found some holes about 6" diameter, presumably dug by them.
Saw four lapwings (Charadrius cayennensis) which Jorge calls "tiro-tiro", yesterday I forgot to say we saw several white egrets (Casmerodius albus), as I finaged a snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae) or "teosina".
Back to rabbits, they are having easily visible impact on a low shrub that is heavily browsed, twice lying dried at wasted, apparently some canbein eaten. Josh pictures.
As we came back to town we stopped to take picture of ox-drawn carts of firewood.