Signs of Spring
Despite the cold the world still finds a way to move from one season to the next! We finished up a wet but successful week at Cook's Lake today. Check out my second scruffing - another red-backed vole. I brought in a familiar voice to narrate this one since it was a special occasion - this is one of three my team trapped today. MooReese's Scruffin' Play-by-Play
Tonight we discussed the comparative data between the Week 1 location (East Port Medford -EPM), and Week 2 location (Cook's Lake Farm - CLF). The estimated vole count at EPM was 5 per hectare while the average at CLF was 6.7 for the week we were there trapping. This is a slight decrease in the data collected last year. I wonder, if ecology is the study of the abundance and distribution of a species in an ecostystem what do you think a scientist might conclude from this data? Why is it important for scientists to conduct repetitive research from one year to the next? Why choose different locations such as the seaside EPM and CLF?
Tomorrow is our last day of study in Nova Scotia. We are heading to the Seaside Adjunct Kejimkujik National Park where we will be walking a transect to put our newfound skills in the wild to the test. What I am particularly looking forward to is a special survival skills lesson from Dr. Newman. Fill you in on that later...what do you hope he teaches us?
Have I told you that Mr. Pembroke, Mr. Long-Volkner and I believe we may be living in a haunted house? This is a hard one to collect evidence on but let me paint the picture...
The post field activity takes place in the "green" house. Here we have access to the wire
less Internet, food, central heating and human interaction. Well, about 300 yards down the road is the "yellow" house (pictured here). Sounds come from the ceiling above our room. Mr. Pembroke has heard doors open and close while he's been there alone. After a late night of blogging, skypeing and singing we head down the dark stretch of road from The Green to The Yellow. The last 50 yards is the worst. Total darkness except for the nightlight inside the Yellow which is just enough to illuminate the top window (above the rhombus window) like it were an eye...watching us come home. Stay tuned...tomorrow night there will be a video to prove to you just how frightening coming home to the Yellow really is...there are no words to describe the cellar...
posted by Mr. Gasteazoro @ 3:19 PM
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I think the most interesting thing I learned was about dog ticks and wood ticks.I wonder if you didn't capture ticks on the blanket because they are more active in warmer weather? Maybe you should leave the blanket there and when the sun heats it up they would cling to it. Maybe they are only attracted to human and animal heat.
The most intresting thing I learned in your whole trip was about the beaver. I didn't think that beavers actually ate wood. I also thought that beavers looked like that muskrat you saw. I also learned a lot about beavers when I was looking for beaver information to help you find beaver. Did you see any beaver?
We thought the most interesting part of your trip was investigating the porcupine poo because it took a lot of effort to find and figure out why the poo came out looking like beads on a string. We wondered what your most interesting scientific investigation was?
Swervey thought the most interesting thing over the past two weeks was the beaver sighting. I didn't know the mother used her tail as a signal to the babies.
Meal thinks the best part was trapping the voles. They were smaller than I thought they would be. I also thought it was cool when you would "tatoo" their hair so you could tell if they were coming back.
W thinks that the most enteresting thing we learned about mammals is that the white footed mouse carys lyne disease could. that efect the mose populatotion?Matthew thinks that the most intresting thing was, the black bear eating the dead fish.why did you not show the green house.
I really liked the video where we had to decide if it was a beaver. I thought it was a muskrat. I learned that they have a skinny tail and use it to swim. I didn't know the beaver uses its tail for balance and signaling instead of swimming.
My favorite things I learned from the expedition was:
I learned how fun blogs can be!
I liked when we learned about how alike and unlike Minnesota and Nova Scotia are because it was so fun searching mammals of MN and NS.
I learned that your feet smell weird to Ms. Tang. I am kind off wanting to see them, so I'd see what Ms. Tang was dealing with.
I liked that you were smelling poop. It was so interesting watching you sniff that poop. Now I want to see what it smelled like; kind of.
My inquiry is:
Do YOU know what your feet smell like? If you do, what do they smell like?
P.S.
Your video, MooReese's Scruffin' Play-by-Play, on YouTube, it said "The Video Was Removed By The User"
What is that about?!?!
Me[Dilly] and B-dub think that the coolest fact of NS is that the climate change really effects the mammals of NS. We think and read in books ghost tend to stay in old places and by the picture the place looks old. Ghosts are intimidating, but most are harmless and usually ghosts are seen or heard right after they die but ghosts can be scared really easy if you have a group of 5 or more people will very well intimidate the ghost.
O.K. now I am going back to the best fact of NS. The climate change against animals is hard to see with out records like the moose pop.
and the rodents and deer regular people can't just say the deer pop. is getting smaller then the rodent pop. What is the coolest fact you learned in NS? P.S. watch out for GHOSTS and BIG FOOT.
Question: Why choose different locations such as the seaside EPM and CLF?
Answer: We both think you should do that because there may be more global warming in one place than the other which would affect mammal change in those places. Mammal change meaning it would probably repel and attract mammals.
Question: What I am particularly looking forward to is a special survival skills lesson from Dr. Newman. Fill you in on that later...what do you hope he teaches us?
Answer: We think Dr.Newman will teach you how to tell apart mammals by there scat, footprints ect.
Endymions favorite part of your trip was the longworth traps and your group finally catching some voles!
T-Bones favorite part of your trip is all the info about voles and mice and how you tell them apart. We would like to know what survival skills did Dr. Newman teach you?
We think the most interesting part of your trip to Nova Scotia is everything but a few things we thought that were really interesting are... that the beaver or at least what we thought was a beaver turned out to out to be a muskrat, and also... how you tought us how to tell a male vole/ mouse from a female vole/ mouse.
I think the most interesting is:
That moose are dying because of brain worm i thought that because it's a big deal and very interesting that the brain go inside of there head near the brain.
My question is:
if global warning keeps going on what new animals and plants will come?
I think the most interesting thing is:
The white footed mouse carries Lyme Disease [like me and W said].I think that is interesting because: Most mice do not carry any diseases. My questions is: Why don't most mice or voles do not come out when it is cold??
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