What a hoot

August 22, 2009

We had a nice little surprise come zooming into the net last night.  He wasn’t too happy about being hung up.

But he got over it.  This is the first time I have to handled a live Eastern Screech Owl so it added a little fun to the night.

He was having a bad hair day -probably going through a late summer molt… but was perfect for a new facebook profile picture…  Too bad we didn’t catch any interesting bats.

Tags: birds, Eastern Screech Owl, owls
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End of August

August 20, 2009

The hot wind blows.

The thunder rumbles.

The sun fades.

Happy end of August.

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Summer

August 8, 2009

Is it really August already?  Wow -what happened to July?  As for me things have been going well -a bit too well actually.  I have hardly had the time to blink lately.  The field season is moving right along.  Our bat captures for the year have exceeded 500 and we have been collecting lots of data tracking their movements (believe me, I’ve been typing it all in).

Lots of interesting things have come up like this Hoary bat.  These guys are so great looking -and hard to catch, I always love to see them.  Despite the innocent looks they are hard to keep track of.  This guy, even though he was a juvenile, zipped along at least 4.2 miles of creek -in one night.

The job leaves little room for anything else but I did slip out to the park the other evening.  It was a short little walk and I stopped only to click exactly two frames.  This is one of them.  Not too bad if I don’t say so myself.

Tags: bats
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