Field notes, v1345
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journal July 6 From 10:30 to early 13:00, 22/1m K, 11km W of Green, Dept. Lima, Peru. finished but missed immediately prior to returning to the shack I shot a small plain scoter that turned out to be Valdeira's Scoter. at the club we talked about what we made cat for supper. We definitely had back upon this. We finally had a couple of pieces of bread, cooked in lime oil. And had a major sun burn. All in all supper wasn't very satisfying. We didn't want to eat traps. One at a go is damn it. The rest were up then say on the host's nothing at all was caught about 18:30 we decided to go down the canyon and look for vultures in afternoon and look for deer. The thought of vultures both coming back as they made the walk easier, cut 9:00 a.m. near at the bottom as I found 2 Bech's. They were about 3 feet yet but was on different rocks. Through the morning I found 4 Beck's and ones as big as 3. We went to bed about 20:30 wondering what had happened to Carl. July 7 About 04:30 the dog was barking outside. Earlier we had seen little deer in the valley when we lost for deer hunting and I thought that they were probably hunter's dogs. However something more a shout at the door "Is anybody home" Carl had arrived with food at last. We let him in talked for awhile and went back to sleep. We rose at 06:30 to the usual foggy gray morning. However breakfast was better than usual with fresh bread eggs and grapefruit. Afterward I showed Carl when I thought Viscotula's were living we return to eat at 09:00 The maximum temperature for last 24 hours was 60°F minimum was 52°F. At the end of the day I wrote Bechler as cataloged the 4 Beck's and caught I changed my system in the catalog to giving the data minute past caught rather than the date that they were put up. The bird rose again at the morning. While doing this the poor living her breast