We found ourselves in the middle of a fierce storm to begin my second week in Alaska. This gave us an opportunity to get trail cameras ready for our up coming project, seal up some waders, and get some GPS work done in the office.

The weather settled down on Wednesday and I was able to get out in the field the last three days of the week. Wednesday and Friday were spent working on a new project, starting this year, aimed at monitoring dusky nest survival by surveying for eagles as possible nest predators. We were able to check out our control and treatment plots and perform eagle surveys. On Thursday, I was able to get out on an Elodea project to help fix some transects. Elodea is an invasive aquatic plant in Alaska and it was great to get some experience with this project.

We have a big week coming up and I will be in the field for about eight days from Wednesday to Wednesday. We will be searching for dusky nests and setting out plot watcher cameras to observe possible depredation as well as performing eagle surveys.





Evan scoping for eagles at one of our survey points.


















Haley working on Elodea transects.



Glassing out over Hartney Bay on Sunday.

This upcoming weekend there is a  large shorebird festival in town and many birds are showing up. On top of shorebirds, we were also lucky enough to see a Eurasian Wigeon.














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