Field notes, v1307
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Hoare, H. 1990 June 29 (continued) but only because it moved as Dave walked by. At 0909h at CCL 105 meters Dave saw a gravid ? Rhadinaea decorata crawling rapidly in leaf litter; he grabbed the snake just as it disappeared into a (krown?) hole. Dave and Billie left on the car after lunch. At 2355 h in the Cartarana Swamp I saw a small adult Leptodeira septentrionalis in the largest small Patacabra, south of the boardwalk, and the same (I think) giant Leptodeira septentrionalis in the same place as last night. It was draped over the same limb, repeatedly pushing its head into a ~ 20 cm vertical stalk of moss just below where it was last night, and evidently -- judging from some repeated behavior as last night -- eating Agalychnis saltator eggs. I took two photos of it w/ a 200 mm lens, 1.4 X teleconverter, and flash. June 30 From ~ 0830-1030 h I walked out SCR, SHO, through SUA and back via CCL w/ Kristen Ranstadt (Yale School of Forestry). After Dave went to the swamp at ~CE5 200m, where Wendy Roberts is studying the breeding biology of leaf-laying frogs. We saw numerous frogs of various species, and one Leptodeira septentrionalis -- laid out on a horizontal branch, with head extended in space and immobile. ~ 2130-2200 h Wendy and I went to the Cartarana Swamp in a downpour w/ scabbed lighting. Saw a small adult Le. septentrionalis ~4 m above the water in the same tree as 2134h on June 28. Saw the "giant" L. septentrionalis 1-2 meters from its