Cooks Lake Site

The ticks are out!! That was the sound heard today as we set up traps. We moved to a new site called Cooks Lake. This area has belonged to Dr. Buesching's family for approximately 23 years. It has a 40 acre field and the surrounding woods have been cut over numerous times; a mixture of balsam fir, spruce , white pine and various hardwoods. We set 50 traps in the forest and another 50 in the field. The temperature today was close to 60 degrees at Cooks Lake, which is inland, and about 45 degrees back at the cottages near the coast. We left the doors closed on the field traps because there are a lot of voles and they loose heat so fast that they could die overnight. We'll probably just set those traps during the day and check them in the afternoon. We're supposed to get rain on Wednesday and winds up to 30 mph, so it will be fun to see what the ocean looks like then.

Nova Scotia fact of the day: more Gaelic is spoken in Nova Scotia than in Scotland; North America's only Gaelic College is at St. Ann's, Nova Scotia; The Antigonish Highland Games are the oldest in North America.


1.) What is the average temp. during this time of the year?
The average temperature is in between 45-55 degrees.

2.) What kind of seafood did you eat on Saturday? Mr. Sattler really would have liked to be there for that. I had a seafood platter for lunch which included fried haddock, scallops and crab cakes. For supper I had lobster and corn chowder. Very tasty!

1.) Did you have a chance to ride of the tugboat? No, but I think Kaila would like to.

2.) Have you had the chance to see any big animals like a moose? Not yet, but we all have our fingers crossed. The moose population is not that large here.

3.) Have you had a chance to go to any of the other provinces? Not on this trip. I'd love to come back and do a lot of exploring Nova Scotia and other provinces.

4.) Are you going to bring back that yellow hat? Of course, along with my beard.