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It was very nice to get a nice long night of sleep last night. The morning I spent helping Carol work with Chris Corbin to trouble shoot the Anabat detectors. We've had 5 units out and no data collected. It's amazing to be able to Skype with people from here. We think we know what the issues are and hope things work tonight.
A couple of days ago I got bitten up by I think gnats, and man do they itch! Much worse than "no-see-ums" in Colorado! Reminds me of chiggers.. I hope they aren't. Thank goodness for benedril and hydrocortisone at "bed time"!
Tonight we drove back up the Escameca Grande drainage; swapped out Anabat units so we can check those and continue collecting data; installed one new Anabat station; then set up netting about half way between Jan 7 and Jan 6 sites. We put up the triple-high with 6m nets, then two 12m, and one 9m nets across the pools in the river. We were missing Stu and Christian tonight. Not quite the same without them.
On the way in we saw:
Scissor-tailed flycatcher (Muscivora forficata )
Bare-throated Tiger heron (tigrisoma mexicanos)
Dusky ant bird (Cercomacra tyrannina rufiventris)
At the site we found:
Anole lizard
Giant toad
Turtle
Tonight's haul: 14 bats (plus 2 escapees) and 8 species. Nothing new for me but Dan Taylor got to handle/release his first common vampire. I got to get the VERY tangled vampire out of the net. Moon was full, so we took the net down about 10:30pm. Home by about 11:45pm. Downloaded Anabat cards: one worked (yea!), one did not. This one may be the problem Anabat... More trouble shooting tomorrow.
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