Thursday Evening

Sorry about the missing videos from yesterday. I found out that they had blogger down for 15 minutes for maintenance. I think it must of been longer than that. We were all very frustrated not being able to get our videos and pictures uploaded. Hopefully they have fixed whatever they were working on.

We have had a busy day and a very beautiful day! The morning started off with breakfast at 8:00. We have our choices of several cereals to choose from. I am not sure which type is in each box? Can you figure it out?

We headed out to Cook's lake to check our traps. It takes about 40 minutes to drive out there and then we have about a half mile hike to the gazebo base camp. We were all excited about the prospect of finding more small mammals. It is about a 20 mile hike through a tall forest, a bog area and then finally a dry area. Kim and I are in charge of zone "c" area traps. We had 2 traps that had been sprung but only one had a rock voile in it.
After we checked all the zones we moved to the forest site to check those traps. This time we had one that had been sprung but no mouse or voile.

It was about lunch time so we headed back to base camp. Lunch usually consists of meat, cheese, egg salad, tuna salad, crackers, chips and cookies. We are usually pretty hungry by the time we get back from checking traps. After lunch we divided into 2 groups.


One group did deer dropping counts and the other group did trail maintenance. I went with the trail maintenance group and we chopped, trimmed and sawed the trail to make it a little easier to follow. I am cutting down a little Christmas tree.

We checked our video trap to see if any pictures were taken and we think there was. We checked the counter number and it indicated that the camera took some pictures. The cameras are triggered by motion sensors. We will leave them up the entire time and check them on the last day.

We left camp and headed to a pond. Can you tell what this is a picture of?



Here are some of the videos from yesterday that I was not able to post.

Here is Dr. Chris Newman telling us about the importance of trapping small mammals.

Dr. Christine Buesching talks about
the procedure for capturing the small
rodents such as voles, mice,
lemmings and flying squirrels. still having trouble loading this video.

Here is the video of me getting my first capture out of the trap. It was an exciting experience for both of us!

Here is the answer to the math problem
Yesterday we had a very busy day. On the way to Cook’s lake we stopped to fill up the van. Here is a multi part math problem for you to solve. Answer will come later.
Petrol (gas)costs $1.25 in Canadian dollars for 1 liter. If you buy 25 gallons of gas how much will it cost in American dollars?
First you need to go to the web and find a currency converter to determine what a dollar is worth in Canadian. Here is a link to a currency converter. http://www.xe.com/ucc/
1.25 CAD = 1.20799 USD
1 liter of gas cost $1.20.
Then you need to find out how many liters are in a gallon of gas.
Go to a metric converter http://www.worldwidemetric.com/Measurements.html
Find out how many liters are in a gallon,
There are 3.7 liters in 1 gallon. To buy 25 gallons of gas you would have to get 92.5 litres

1 litre of gas cost $1.20 in American
For 25 gallons of gas you would need to buy 92.5 litres
92.5 x 1.20 = $111.00 US dollars

Did you get the same answer? There are several ways to get to get this answer.

I hope to have some more videos tomorrow. The scat video being one of them. I also have some pictures to share.