It has been a busy few weeks down here in Mississippi, both in terms of work and life outside of telemetry. We put out three birds at two sites on consecutive days (it was crazy), it snowed, we saw a couple of thousand geese by the side of the highway, Megan and I started taking pictures with road kill, Tim brought us a baby squirrel, Anne and I went to a “Wildlife Banquet” where Anne sampled a lot of the local wildlife and I enjoyed the candied yams . . . Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the past few weeks!
Also, here are a couple of Rusty identification photos. You can tell the age and sex classes of these birds in the winter based the presence of white feathers around the eye (juveniles have them, adults don’t) and on color (males are much darker). Take your best guess for these three birds!
As far as my existence beyond my current job, I have been accepted to the Direct-PhD program at the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University (quite the mouthful!). I just received notification that I will be funded for the next four years starting this fall . . . very exciting!
My best to everyone in all of this wacky winter weather . . . I’m hoping D.C. thaws soon so I can find out about my next great adventure.
