May began with my first trip out to dusky camp. We arrived on Wednesday the second and after a couple days found out that we were a little early. Geese were still laying and not spending much time on their nests so it was hard to find many of them. The weather looked real bad for Friday and we had some boat troubles so we decided to come back to town for a day and let the geese progress further in the nesting process.

We headed back out on Saturday and the nest searching got better every day we were out there. The weather improved as well and we got to enjoy some nice sunny days on the delta. More geese were spending time on their nests and holding tight. We put cameras on all of the nests we found in an effort to discover what predators are killing dusky nests.

It is going to be very interesting to see what we find on our cameras. We will be heading back out to search for more nests and perform nest checks in the near future. 

                                                                              


With many sloughs, rivers and ponds on the delta poke boats are a great way to get around. 












Many of our cameras are mounted to a piece of conduit and placed near the nests, but a couple of nests were close enough to trees that we could put them in. 


Dusky crew from left to right Nick, Evan, Me, Clark, and Brandt.

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