14:00 Today we
all had a lie-in until 08:00, the volunteers crashed out as the movie last
night went late into the night. We had
cereal, lots of fruit (standard) as well as some of my cappuccinos from
England, which went down well.
We sat waiting
for a call for the volunteers to leave, which allowed us to do some bird
watching. The nearby flycatchers were
going mad in their now big nest, feeding young! Then a Black Trogon landed in
clear view on a branch not so far away which I managed to snap a couple of photos
of before my camera started making strange noises at me, slightly scared…
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A Shy Trogan Enters The Scene (D.Philpot)
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| Social Flycatcher On Nest Duty (D.Philpot) |
A
playful Coati came running down the path also, playfully bounding against trees
in a really funny manner that I had not seen previously.
Said a sad
goodbye to the volunteers, and then helped one of the cooks and 2 new
volunteers in. Every goodbye was sad but
working in such environments you get used to saying goodbye to nice people and
meeting more later on. Just had lunch, about to go to the lab.
21:30 I
repaired the projector screen (sheet), upgrading it to mark 2, tested out the
scientific instruments box – adding ‘date tested’ type stamps, and compiled
more the last of the digital bird species list.
On a side note I now have 700 Pochote seeds, and check out this wasp and moth I found whilst collecting seeds:
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| An Interesting Wasp (D.Philpot) |
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| A Fluffy Moth (D.Philpot) |
I returned
from the lab to enjoy an incredible sunset along with an Armadillo.
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| Happily Foraging (D.Philpot) |
In the evening the cook was in a funny mood
as she was so tired, I fixed her TV for her and the kitchen radio (was switched
off below haha), then I sat in the hammock pondering about experiments among other
things before I read the CSU course and went to bed.