Argentina field notes, v1528
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#86-12 8 213x88x32x25 93g. #86-13, SV18, spoiled tables. ages: minor #86-13 8 205x70x33x24 ½ 90g, tests 12, SV18, spoiled tables ages: minor The above two were jacklighted between 9 and 10:45 at the border of Ribeir/Barbier lusher along a stream and "meadow" including ginner, 20.5km from ENE Bardebo. There were 3 others too shy to shoot, all 5" in about 50 m of brush margins. Didn't see any until about 9:30-9:45, still no moon. Yesterday afternoon set 9 cage traps with syrupy green grass along the south side of the San Ramón meadow. Incredible numbers of bare droppings. No Rattler droppings on the right side. Saw something about longevity of dropping? A small number and some open holes on the left side. NVC in this meadow from 7:30 (dark, cloudy, calm) to 8:35 (pitch dark, cloudy, calm). Saw only one shrew (at 8:10). Then jacklighted at the 2.5km place. Then NVC again 11:15 to 12:30. From 11:50 to 12:20 watched a small, adult owl on the east side of the road over camp near a Barbarea lucker. It moved no more than 5m in the half- hour, moon up but behind clouds, calm. It looked like it might have scent-marked 2 burrow openings with its stomach. Then another loop around the meadow—nothing. In the morning, nothing in the 9 traps. Episodes