Didn’t get to sleep until late. Still needed to work through the final details for sampling today, so worked until bedtime. Which meant brain was still engaged when it should have been sleeping. And my foot was really itchy. And then the Wild dogs were hunting through the station. I could hear them vocalizing and the Dikdiks alarm calling. Woke up early for Skye date. Ate Powerbar for breakfast so could chat longer. Out to field to start collect specimens for food web analysis = hand collecting acacia ants and arboreal insects, setting pitfall traps for ground insects. Long field day, worked through half of the sites and was dragging arse by the end. Sun and wind got me all dried out.

Met new visitor at dinner. She’s a Masters student who was originally stationed in Nairobi working for the UN Environmental Program. UN got nervous in Jan with political fallout and sent every non-permanent worker home. This woman wanted to continue to do work in Kenya and got hooked up with a researcher here.