MINUTO DE SILENCIO!!!!

Day 31: The CLAM-PANTS are history .... However their legacy lives on.  Our clip of the day was courtesy of a curly, who was foraging up in the vegetation for bees, even venturing to catch them in mid-air as anoles do. Go curlies!!!! 

Time to Celebrate

Day 30; Feliz Cumpleaños Chivo. Also, Alejandro is leaving us tomorrow.  He needs a break from the sunny and NOT-so-sunny weather and is looking forward to catch-up with his sequencing work.

New Captain

Day 29, we took a break from collecting focal observations to collect temperature data.  Team “Barbarita”, collected data on 126 lizards, whereas team “Chivo” collected data on 123 lizards.  For those of you wondering how “hot” A. sagrei can be on small cay, with relatively little vegetation and perching on the ground, how about 48.3°C, (that is 118 °F) and the average temperature at 2:00 pm was 34.5 °C.  Also, Barbarita did a VERY VERY GOOD job at driving the boat, she is our new captain.   

TORMENTAS!!!!!

Day 27 & 28, It is great to be back, although the lousy weather continues. According to Chivo, over the last 10 days at least one storm had chased them out of the water. Nevertheless no storm is powerful enough to keep Nicole, Alejandro and Chivo from collecting behavioral data.  As of today, we have collected over 300 observations of A. sagrei and close to 50 of L. carinatus.  As a side note, Nicole has mastered the the video-microphone technique surpassing Chivo's ability.   

Three-hundred

Day 26: Barometer Bob for weeks has been telling us "clear & sunny on Thursday." It was clear and sunny for only about 6 hours. But those 6 hours have pushed us over the 300 video mark! It's slightly depressing, but we will take it considering the weather. I guess I should also say my good-bye's as El Jefe returns to take over the blog tomorrow . . .

300, not bad, only 200 short from "Pico Turquino"

Snappers

Day 25: Got some videos in today before the daily storm. Also took some temperatures of lizards around the apartment to test the accuracy of the lizard models. Not bad. The highlight of the day though was our acquisition of 3 snappers from a kind fellow at Snake Cay. Alex adeptly filleted them and cooked them to perfection. Wonderful.

Alex's Dude

Above is a video of a male anole that Alex captured a few days ago. It's worth the watch. Trust me.

Today was pretty good --- a little vomiting, a little sunshine, plenty of videos. The rain is here now, but no worries. The forecast is for clear skies through the weekend. Time to watch some more videos!!!