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
Posted at 15:29 EDT in Research.
January 19, 2009
Lately I’ve been poking around in the woods with my camera as usual… but I’m not looking for pretty pictures. Graduate courses in wildlife identification are no joke. As part of my class this quarter I have to document the presence of a certain number of species of mammals and birds. It sounds simple enough… until you have all the easy ones and subtract from the number required. Thankfully, the snow has come.

I’m still not sure about this one. But the one below everyone should know.

Only one problem -I still don’t have enough.
Tags: birds, habitat, identification, mammals, tracking, weather
Posted at 18:45 EST in Biology, Research.