Trapping Success and Counting Poop
Today was an awesome day in Nova Scotia! I started out the morning by walking down near the ocean and watched a fishing boat leave the wharf. The fisherman said they were going to be trying to catch "large" which we think meant the large, king crabs. Hopefully, I'll be able to find some of them to eat in Halifax on Saturday. It was a beautiful day today; blue sky and a temperature of around 55 degrees. We checked the traps today and caught some red-backed voles, common deer mice and a chipmunk (I think it was Alvin). We record data including: mass, sex, adult or juvenile, species, time, trap identification and sexual maturity. After having the animal run a maze, they are released in the same area that they were caught in. Today we also picked up snowshoe hare pellets. Imagine crawling around on your hands and knees looking for, and picking up, hare poop. Not my most favorite thing to do, but it's data that is needed to estimate the population of that type of animal.
More good questions from my classes today.
We travel to the research sites in a 15 passenger van.
We walked about 3-4 miles today and didn't see any
large mammals yet. We'll be doing some GPS work next
week.
Nova Scotia fact of the day: the first people here were Micmac Indians.
posted by Kurt Long Voelkner @ 8:01 PM
1 Comments:
Mr. Long Voelkner,
It was a lot of fun seeing you this morning during third hour. All of the others are really hoping for the chance. Here are some of the questions that the afternoon classes had.
1.) How much free time have you got while you have been there and what all of you done with it?
2.) have you adjusted to the time change?
3.) What is your biggest goal for the trip?
4.) Will you come to school for one day with your beard?
Hope to hear from you soon!
Zeta!
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