JPM Myers 1973 Journal Estancia Medland, 35 Km S of Juancho by road, Pcia de Buenos Aires, Argentina around farm houses in the distance. The Arroyo was surprisingly replite with white-wumped pipers. We saw 200-300t in the 2Km that we covered. Also large more than 50 (less than 100) Hypodaits A few flags. Cormorants. 1 Ruddy turnstone (flipping cow slits - I must of till Jell how struck [illegible] its resemblance to Magellanic plomer), brown headed gullo, many ducks, a few golden plowers (in the mud), 1 buffy (on the mud). Over the bank and in the field predominant birds were (buffler and goldens - several hundred of such species; we saw them on both side of the arroyo. Southern lapwings, brown and yellow marshbrid, [illegible], Fendrickia, Anthus, paimaing ouls, also very evident. Surprisingly few nasty little furnacials to confront me. Saffron finches flocking in thistle along the bank. Another amazing thing was the presence of large and not-very-degenerated shells - both bivalve and gastropod - along the Arroyo and on top of the grass. We returned to the car at 1830, cutting directly across the fields. We then went to the Sabrecuici for a visit + dinner with Sr. Arbelaiq, the capatay Sr. Oetao, and the ranch hand living with his family at the ranch house, a Basque named Huici (he is very sharp, with good info + an unusually inquisitive approach for someone here in the campo - he may be the Wagonlord of the ranch). They told me that 1) that weather like this - windy + scadford extreme thunderstorm, was not unusual, and 2) that all of the ponds to the W of the ranch house dry during a normally long day summer, though the Arroyo, and lagoons to the E, remain with 6.0. I told Arbelaiq again and in more detail what I wanted to do on the Estancia, stressing that it needed several weeks would be a year's work, and he (I wasn't sure how much he had absorbed this - it seems to be slavery down from age) - he and the capatay said to treat the land as if it were my own. Whoopee. Arroyo Chico from Farmhouse Road Bridge to Rt 22 Bridge, Estancia Medland, Pcia de Buenos Aires Argentina 24 November We hid in the car all morning from the rain and wind. Violent squalls out of the SE every 45min or so. Buffin and goldens foraging around the car (see camp list). By noon the frequency of the storms had lessened, so we started off on foot, following Arroyo Chico to the WNW, the first turn was done alongside a fence, not at the Arroyo (we had been over that stretch yesterday). When the fence approached the Arroyo (and ended) we began following the streambanks.