I finished all of the points in Whitewater Wildlife Management Area (WMA) today! I wore my compression socks, but maybe I should have paid more attention to my feet yesterday: by the end of the day, I couldn’t stand on them. I had “pins and needles” in the bottom of my feet, which were especially […]
Continue reading..Avian Point Counts on BluffsToday was a unique challenge to get to a number of points: I had to find my way down a ravine, pick my way down a dry stream bed, and climb up a bluff to get to the last points in the series. I should have been wearing my compression socks, because it did my […]
Continue reading..Point Counts on BluffsToday definitely had the most raspberry patches of any of the counts. I got scratched a number of times, even through my classic Carhartt original fit pants. Also, my waterproof hiking shoes are anything but; I ended up with water pooled around my feet just from the dew! A reward of bushwhacking, though, was finding […]
Continue reading..Point Counts on Bluff PrairiesToday’s point counts were good, especially because I had some help! I did get a deer tick bite, though. I think I caught it as the tick bit me (found it by feeling a bite/itch).
Continue reading..Point CountsHere’s an interesting note: just to try a parallel run with multiple nodes, I requested 9 nodes x 24 cores for 48 hours and got it (maybe because everyone is clearing out their jobs before the shutdown). However, I am just running with a small subset; it scheduled last night and is still running! It […]
Continue reading..Super-computing?This morning’s survey was less than a fairytale. The gnats didn’t respond at all to DEET so it was the 1st survey where I had to break out my head net. Also, I abandoned my trucker hat in favor of the brimmed field hat I bought before I left. My first test of my Carhartt […]
Continue reading..Whitewater WMAI’ve arrived in Winona, MN to do the “eastern part” of the bird survey work. I’ll be based here for at least the northern surveys. The bluff country is so beautiful!
Continue reading..Bluff Prairie SurveysNow, it’s warming up enough that by the later morning surveys, I don’t need my waterproof boots!
Continue reading..Smiley Barn WMAI think my feet are sweating quite a bit in my waterproof knee-high boots, but I don’t mind it. They’re perfect to otherwise keep dry in the tall, dewy grass…well now that I type that out, maybe it’s a bit ironic?
Continue reading..Blue Mounds State ParkToday, I scouted this area to figure out what was suitable to target.
Continue reading..Windy Acres WMA