Over our past posts we mentioned our employment is watching birds or specifically that we are “point counting”. However there has been scant attention paid to what a point count actually is. I suppose for those of you actually following along yet unsure what this… Read More
After my transect at Slate Creek I took a long drink of water at my last point and checked my topo map for the quickest way to the road where I was to meet Brendan. Southwest is where the map and compass pointed me and… Read More
After finishing my transect this morning I wandered the road watching a Steller’s Jay that was obviously up to something sneaky (stealing nestlings?), tried to find a drumming Pileated Woodpecker and although I heard a Hutton’s Vireo quite close (“tree! tree! tree! tree!”) I knew… Read More
I have a bit of advice for those of you spending your days out in the forest. Don’t read anything about any sort of animal attack the night before you venture out for a jaunt. If it’s an excursion for pleasure you’ll quickly depart for… Read More
It was chilly and grey out when Mel, Joe, and I left camp this morning, but the birds near our cabin were singing their hearts out…as per normal for around here. As we turned on some tunes to wake us up the rain started in… Read More
We had been toying with the idea of going through Lassen National Park enroute to Chester, where our job training would start. I was a bit anxious to just get there because Simone had lost her confidence in driving stick during a mishap a couple… Read More
When we woke in the morning, Simone still wasn’t feeling any better but there was barely time to dwell on snot or strep throat. The trilliums were amassed in diffuse colors, the colossal redwoods stretched up around us, and the eerie echo of a Pileated… Read More
My first night in the truck proved magically restful and both Simone and I slept nearly 10 hours (we were both tired from several days of little sleep, a snotty sick, and preparing for our adventure). During the night we heard the raucous calls of… Read More
Simone and I started off at 8 am out of Seattle. The city sent us off in full form, with a good swath of rain as we slid through traffic on our way to meet up with Dr. Steven Herman in Olympia. Steve was first… Read More
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