Thankfully, I found a canoe and someone to help with the canoe so the winners could enjoy a nice canoe ride down the Blackwater River. Originally they were supposed to go on the 9th but then decided they wanted to go on the 10th so that gave me a little more time to prepare...
Craziness aside, Lon and I went to the Canaan Loop Road sites. I discovered yesterday that the squirrels really like peanuts and the snares weren't disturbed by bears, so I was hoping for the same results today. Sure enough we had 7 out of 10 at our Big Rock site that had been successfully triggered with viable hair samples -- 6 of which I could confidently say were flying squirrel hair! Flag Run was a different story...all of the snares were still open but all the bait was gone -- MICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tell you, if it's not bears, it's mice...if it's not mice, it's bears!
The next intern will be lucky because the black bear activity will really die down late October into November as they go into their winter sleep and the mice activity should hopefully die down as well so it should, hopefully, be smooth sailing for them!
Sadly I didn't take any pictures today so I thought I'd share some photos with you all from my internship last summer. I was an avian field technician for a Grad student from Louisiana State University and our work was along the middle rio grande in New Mexico. We were based out of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
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