Not that it's this little Yellow Warbler's fault, but our permit hasn't come through for Olympic National Park, so we are stuck in a holding pattern until the people who can sign off on it come back to the office after the holiday. We were all really excited to leave on Sunday, but hopefully we will be out of here on Monday morning like a bird being released from bander's grip (do bird banding similes work on this blog's audience?). We are headed up to Olympic to get bird samples to pair with dragonfly larvae, water and sediment samples that my lab is collecting to see differences in mercury across all parts of the food web, in all parts of the park. Olympic is a really interesting place because it gets a ton of rain from the Pacific on it's west side but the east side is in a rain shadow from the mountains. I've never been to the park yet so I'm very excited! Plus, I figure we will get to see vampires*.
In the meantime, I uploaded more photos from our adventures. Beware there are a ton of them and might only be interesting to our crew.
*for those not up on tween literature, Twilight was set in Forks, Washington, which is where we will be staying.
In the meantime, I uploaded more photos from our adventures. Beware there are a ton of them and might only be interesting to our crew.
*for those not up on tween literature, Twilight was set in Forks, Washington, which is where we will be staying.