BB, TR, DC and Vince head out to the refuge to spotlight sage grouse at 4am. No grouse are found at night and the team waits until sunrise to see where they have been roosting for the night. 13 birds appear on an eastern point above the "Grand canyon" and another bunch of 4 is flushed by Vince a couple of ridges above the road.
Vince, Bryan, and Tom put out a new deer by HWY 89 for the aiport pair and set up the walk-in traps on the eastern end of the Mormon row sage-grouse lek. The NER Sign pair are seen feeding off Cheetos within seconds of our pulling out of the parking lot.
Spotlighting at 4am w/ D, B, T, and myself. Nothing seen besides a couple of coyotes. At sunrise we scanned for SAGR to the tune of MELA and HOLA and coyotes howling. Spot 13 SAGR in historic lek area. I take a walk looking for night roost piles and find a few above the road. On my way back to the road, I flush four SAGR who fly out of sight behind a ridge on the other side of the grand canyon. We come back to the office and have a meeting on trapping plans. B, and myself head in to town to the hardware store to get some fencing and posts for the Morton LekB, T, and myself set out deer carcass across from airport and throw some cheetoes at the pull out near the sign nest. CORA down on cheetoes immediately upon leaving the pull out.
B, T, and myself set up the walk in trap at the Morton Lek.
First SOSP heard today near office in riparian!
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