Exploring Gibbonsville in Letchworth State Park with Amos and Eva.
Gibbonsville with the dogs
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Kayaking to Cockspur Island Lighthouse
In late August, I joined a night kayak to the Cockspur Island lighthouse as a storm rolled by northward, probably near Hilton Head Island.
Juvenile rat snake
A juvenile rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus) found at the Historic Ogeechee Canal. The Savannah River Ecology Laboratory reports that the Yellow Rat Snake is the common subspecies found in Coastal Georgia (P. obsoletus quadrivittata), whereas the Grey Rat Snake (P. obsoletus spilotes) is found inland. I’ve found a couple of adult Yellow Rat Snakes on Armstrong State University’s campus, but clear identification of juveniles is more difficult.
This individual had been constricting a green anole (Anolis carolinensis) when I encountered it, but release its large prey item when Amos began to investigate.
Reproducing polychaetes
Free swimming polychaetes (bristle worms) littered the surf at Tybee Island in April 2015. I guessed that they were depositing eggs.
San Vito Birding Club
Members and volunteers of the San Vito Bird Club band and take measures of mist-netted birds they’ve caught at Finca Cantaros in 2013.
Musa flowers
A non-native banana (Musa rosacea) found along and in stream beds at Las Cruces Biological Station.
Amos at Middle Falls
Too cold for a little chiweinie at Letchworth State Park.
Rock Dam Trail at Mistletoe State Park
Middle and Upper falls at Letchworth State Park
Monitoring temperature and humidity along an elevation gradient
During NAPIRE 2013, a couple of mentors and the station director at Las Cruces Biological Station decided to set up iButtons to remotely monitor temperature and relative humidity at 100 m increments along an elevation gradient. The aim was to place an iButton from 1100 m to 1400 m at the reserve at Las Cruces, then include the forest at Las Alturas to monitor 1500 to 2100 m.
I helped to set out the sensing units at Las Cruces, and this past year, during NAPIRE 2015, I happened across one of them… I recognized the site when visiting Katie’s butterfly roosting experiment.
