MARCH 4th
On Sunday evening Sarah and Mike from ROLEX arrived from
England to film a short documentary on Para La Tierra’s progress in Community Outreach
and Scientific work. Karina had won an award from ROLEX for her work in developing
these fields.
Helen had had some success with an Opossum in one of the
Sherman traps. This mammal obviously found the peanut butter and biscuit mix
too much to miss resulting in a brief term of incarceration before being micro
chipped and released.
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| (Opossum) |
This was to be the first of four days filming which involved
a trip to Nightjar land in the afternoon to film this critically endangered species.
The day was foggy at first but the sun broke through briefly in the afternoon
then disappeared again in time for the drive across the Cerado.
This turned out to be ideal weather conditions as the birds
were willing participants in the film making process. A Spotted Nothura was
flushed near the track as the truck passed. Mike succeeded in getting a few
feet away from Burrowing Owl!
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| (Burrowing Owl) |
The White-winged Nightjars were on form too with three birds
being located in quick succession and two posing to be filmed at very close
range. Fantastic! A pair of White-rumped Hawk were also observed flying close
to the edge of the plantation.
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