This morning we repeated the same sequence of trapping and then completing several rounds of Deer Pellet Inventories. My team (Team B: Jen, Bob and I) each captured and released one vole. Once again, though, we had several more traps that were closed, but turned out to be empty. We are finding that the majority of voles were being caught in the areas that Christina and Chris referred to as "clear-cut" and not the heavily forested area where you might think they would be more prevalent. This is definitely worth looking into, to find out why. Our results, so far, were different from what our P.I.s had hypothesized. Perhaps we can email Chris and Christina to find out more about what they think is happening here and why.
The latter part of the day included a trip to the "Chataway" Cafe for the teachers, so that we could go over our field notes, make contacts to the school and do some posting to our blogs. Bob took some pictures of the cafe and surrounding area. As you can tell by the photo, I was beginning to feel just a little bit tired. Our work is almost done!
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