With one last wake-up pending, this was the final one with adventure pending. It wasn't the coldest morning at 52 degrees but then again, it never got too hot today either.
Today's schedule came packed with Bird Banding ....
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| The net used to catch birds |
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| Weighing the birds |
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| Colored bands used by the Banders of Teton School |
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| Standard bands used for small song birds. |
...and followed by some Macro Invertebrate Stream study
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| Grayson and Josh stir up and catch some Macro Invertebrates |
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| The rest of the gang collects data |
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| Stirring up some more in the Willow Area |
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| Collecting Data in the Rain |
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| Wrapping everything up at the end of the day. |
Both types of scientific study and investigation are used to determine the health of an ecological system. We didn't find many birds but we were able to witness three birds being banded and learned some facts about the different types of bands and techniques.
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| Danner explaining how the nets work |
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| David trying to identify the bird. |
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| Preparing to band the bird |
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| Danner is Skulling to try and age this song bird |
As for the stream study, we were trying to see if there was any difference in Macro Invertebrates between the Willow are and the Non-Willow area. We didn't find any. But what we did find was a huge Thunder Storm and some very nice May Flies, Caddis Flies, Water Mites, Dobsonfly, and Midges.
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| Eating lunch and reviewing the day before stream study |
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| Hiking out to the stream |
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| Getting some instruction before the study |
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| Catching some gunk and goodies |
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| What did we find? |
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| Separating the Macro Invertebrates for classification |
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