This past week has been fantastic as far as animal sightings go. Granted, there have been a lot of cool things prior to that... a day where we saw six foxes on the road, one night where we spooked a burrowing owl from our campsite, and I'm sure several others that are slipping my mind. However, this week takes the cake.
Top 5:
5) Seeing one of the banded bald eagles fly overhead
4) Seeing my first black widow spider! It was under a rock we picked up, and was about the size of a peanut m&m
3) Finding the only scorpion species on the island Pseudouroctonus minimus minimus (at ~ 20 mm it is tiny!)
2) Bison antics in the middle of the night. We were hanging out by the fire for a bit, minding our own business, when we heard a noise from the next campsite over. We shined our headlamps over that way, and found ourselves a really big bison moseying his way by our camp, munching. We sort of shooed him away with our lights and a little bit of talking, and he slowly made his way over the hill. Joke was on us though... as soon as we were in our tents he returned, bringing with him three bison buddies, and they all were very vocal, and just a tad bit creepy.
1) Fox survey flight. Codi (a fellow ACE volunteer) and I were able to tag along for a ride in a four person Cessna as another ACE member did a radio survey of all sixty-three foxes on the island. All present and accounted for! The views were fantastic and gave me a better idea of the overall topography of the island.
That's all for this week... hope yours was as adventure filled as mine!
Top 5:
5) Seeing one of the banded bald eagles fly overhead
4) Seeing my first black widow spider! It was under a rock we picked up, and was about the size of a peanut m&m
3) Finding the only scorpion species on the island Pseudouroctonus minimus minimus (at ~ 20 mm it is tiny!)
2) Bison antics in the middle of the night. We were hanging out by the fire for a bit, minding our own business, when we heard a noise from the next campsite over. We shined our headlamps over that way, and found ourselves a really big bison moseying his way by our camp, munching. We sort of shooed him away with our lights and a little bit of talking, and he slowly made his way over the hill. Joke was on us though... as soon as we were in our tents he returned, bringing with him three bison buddies, and they all were very vocal, and just a tad bit creepy.
1) Fox survey flight. Codi (a fellow ACE volunteer) and I were able to tag along for a ride in a four person Cessna as another ACE member did a radio survey of all sixty-three foxes on the island. All present and accounted for! The views were fantastic and gave me a better idea of the overall topography of the island.
That's all for this week... hope yours was as adventure filled as mine!
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