Field notes, v1308
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Greene, lt. 1991 June 22 (continued) Coco, although Albani says that place is more poor than here. "Body surfing" w/ Wendy after lunch. ~1/6/5h it's getting darker and there's thunder in the distance. Lots of butterflies around here - yesterday, we saw clouds of several species; "puddling" near the beach, at at least 6 times in the Bay, several km from land a single one (usually bright yellow or orange) would fly by the boat a meter or two above the water. Twice I saw 2 butterflies, evidently the same species and flying together. Wendy says they might be migrating, or victims of the wind. On the grounds of the Cabinas is a case w/ two bright white/gray squirrels w/ dark middorsal stripes, identifiable in Emmons' (both as Sciurus variegatus (later we saw a similar colored animal run off the road nearby, so presume these are local). At ~1700 h we walked to the pond behind Albani's house from where came the frog chorus last night. Next door is a bar, and between it and the pond are four pivies w/ "$30" or "$20" painted on each door (they looked identical and we didn't enter to investigate the price difference). There is trash everywhere in and around the town pond - a squale ranging from discarded wooden chairs to beer bottle shards - and seagulls everywhere and in all sizes are the bright purple, yellow, and red