The Falls
Yesterday was mostly the same as Thursday except since Albertson College is a lot closer to Twin Falls than BYU we got back in town in time to check some of the traps we set out. 
The only things we had trapped were a scorpion, which was very cool and fluorescent green and yellow about 1-2 inches long without the tail, two voles that had starved to death and a bushy-tailed woodrat which drowned. We didn't realize how low that one trap was and we got some good rains on Thursday and Friday but we fixed it by putting some pieces of wood in the trap so they could get above the water next time. 75% mortality rate, not a good start considering we are going for <1% mortality. 
Today my roommates and one of the other wildlife technicians who lives in the trailers all went to the Shoshone Falls and hiked around for a few hours. It was beautiful even though we were told right now they don't do themselves justice since most of the water has been diverted for irrigation. However, coming from S. California I thought they were spectacular.
While hiking around out there we saw several of the lizards we are supposed to be catching and I believe we correctly identified them since 2 of them are ones that I became quite proficient in identifying while in the Mojave Desert. I was able to identify most of the birds we saw also but I will definitely have to pick my binoculars up when I come home for graduation.
The order of the pictures is: Alaska, colorado, Arizona, New York and all of us except Alaska (the photographer).
The only things we had trapped were a scorpion, which was very cool and fluorescent green and yellow about 1-2 inches long without the tail, two voles that had starved to death and a bushy-tailed woodrat which drowned. We didn't realize how low that one trap was and we got some good rains on Thursday and Friday but we fixed it by putting some pieces of wood in the trap so they could get above the water next time. 75% mortality rate, not a good start considering we are going for <1% mortality. 
Today my roommates and one of the other wildlife technicians who lives in the trailers all went to the Shoshone Falls and hiked around for a few hours. It was beautiful even though we were told right now they don't do themselves justice since most of the water has been diverted for irrigation. However, coming from S. California I thought they were spectacular.
While hiking around out there we saw several of the lizards we are supposed to be catching and I believe we correctly identified them since 2 of them are ones that I became quite proficient in identifying while in the Mojave Desert. I was able to identify most of the birds we saw also but I will definitely have to pick my binoculars up when I come home for graduation.The order of the pictures is: Alaska, colorado, Arizona, New York and all of us except Alaska (the photographer).
posted by Gliterwolf at 6:31 PM
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One of your animals here caught something and brought it in for me. Could have been Chase cause he wouldn't look at it. A nice big mouse or small rat--about five inches. What a nice thing to wake up to. It was dead so our record is no better than yours.
Whoever it was that caught the mouse got another one. Didn't bring it in, though, left it on the astro-turf. Maybe Onyx is turning into a mouser after all. Her neck is getting better.
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