September 26, 2010

Swets

Despite what looked to be poor weather for owls, we caught 33 saw whets throughout the night. While I generally try to get to sleep around 10 or so, this being the first really active night for the owls I couldn't stay away and found myself pulling them out of the nets until about 4am. When I finally got to bed we were well into our first frost of the season, crawling into my 27 degree sleeping bag...

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Irresistible

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