Its scary how fast this field season is going by! We are approaching our last couple of weeks on CI, and we are now having an idea on our departure date. Our Helicopter is booked for June 30th, 31st or August 1st, so it looks like we’ll be leaving around then. Jess will be leaving a bit earlier to work on some school stuff.
BUT! This isn’t the end of the season yet! There is still a couple more weeks of work to do!! Although most of our nests we are monitoring are now hatched, and some of our nests are completed, we are still keeping busy. Most of our chicks we are monitoring are now getting up there in age (Over 20 days!!) and our work becomes more difficult because they are more mobile (many are now flying!!!), and they can still hide quite well. Because of this, we are now shifting some of our efforts to re-sighting.
Since my last update, we completed our second tern census! We found over 75 late nesters in half the colony, which means throughout the whole season, we’ve had around 1500 tern nests (And roughly 2/3 of those are ARTEs!!).
On the birding front, things have been pretty slow. We added semi-palmated sandpipers to our bird list, which puts us at 118 birds for the season! Two more to reach our 2nd goal of 120 birds! (Originally we predicted we’d get around 100).
I’ve been taking lots of photos, and will have lots to share for a few weeks!
Anyways, this may or may not be my last update from Country Island. Not sure yet. Our internet has been choppy, so this may be the last of it I get!
The field season is going by too fast!! .
Brennan
BUT! This isn’t the end of the season yet! There is still a couple more weeks of work to do!! Although most of our nests we are monitoring are now hatched, and some of our nests are completed, we are still keeping busy. Most of our chicks we are monitoring are now getting up there in age (Over 20 days!!) and our work becomes more difficult because they are more mobile (many are now flying!!!), and they can still hide quite well. Because of this, we are now shifting some of our efforts to re-sighting.
Since my last update, we completed our second tern census! We found over 75 late nesters in half the colony, which means throughout the whole season, we’ve had around 1500 tern nests (And roughly 2/3 of those are ARTEs!!).
On the birding front, things have been pretty slow. We added semi-palmated sandpipers to our bird list, which puts us at 118 birds for the season! Two more to reach our 2nd goal of 120 birds! (Originally we predicted we’d get around 100).
I’ve been taking lots of photos, and will have lots to share for a few weeks!
Anyways, this may or may not be my last update from Country Island. Not sure yet. Our internet has been choppy, so this may be the last of it I get!
The field season is going by too fast!! .
Brennan
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