August 24

Hey everyone back again! Well like always day one doesn’t really involve many animals. We opened the pitfalls and flagged at Dry Bay and Long Tin in the morning and opened and bated the mammal traps in the afternoon. It’s still too hot for ticks I think because we didn’t get anything from flagging. Maybe this is the reason why Lyme disease has such a low prevalence in the south, it’s even too hot for the ticks to be out. We also decided to shorten our trapping session to two nights instead of three because we have pretty much captured the entire population, we know this because almost every animal we catch is a recap.