Day 46

This week has been pretty slow- nothing real exciting to report. I found a deer tick in my head today (the bad ones that can carry Lyme disease), so hopefully I got it out quickly enough. We went birding the past 3 mornings since the weather was good- we also did salamander coverboard checks but didn't find any this week. We had a little bit of rain on Monday evening, but not too much. There is a chance of thunderstorms for tomorrow, so hopefully we will get enough rain to go out salamander searching, or at least go out and do a frog call survey since we haven't been able to yet.

As usual, some pictures of interest. Most of our days aren't too long now that we have all of the habitat data collected. Now most of my days entail sitting in front of the computer for a few hours inputting data. We've got about 2.5 more weeks of intensive stuff before I get to go back to Blacksburg! As long as the ticks, bears, snakes, etc. don't get to us first!

Holy kudzu! This invasive vine takes over EVERYTHING. For scale, the path in front of the brush is a one-lane road. This thing is huge.

Frog tracks! Not often seen- these could be green frog or wood frog most likely.

The promised picture of the water truck next to our Jeep! HUGE!