Fri, May 4, 2007

V and B trap at Moulton. Catch 1 hen and 1 male. T and V does telemetry and nest findings. Locates nest of 265 and 254. 237 is not nesting, and is found on the bank of flat creek.
B, V, and Dan go spotlighting and catch 1 male on Timbered Island.

Thurs, May 3, 2007

V and B head down to Pinedale for meetings. T goes out to TI lek, and waits out a lightning storm, and isn't able to get satellites for GPS. Searches new foraging area to the North instead and finds pellets but no birds flushed or found at all there around 6:20.
T heads out to find raven nest west of highlands loop road, locates nest but it is unoccupied. Is unable to find new nest anywhere in the area.
Finds and triangulates 628 and 671.

Wed, May 2, 2007

B and Aly trap at Moulton. Rocket net did not fire. Cannon net caught 1 male. Bryan left for Pinedale with Howard while T and V and Aly do telemetry. Some birds hard to find (671, 628) and need to be recieved from way on top of the car. 749 flew all the way down near Kelly and was difficult to find.

Tues, May 1, 2007

B and T trap at the TI Lek. B shoots the net launcher at a male and just misses, as a hen is just on her way into the trapping area. B and T head north and look for northern collared hens. Find an area with roughly 12 sage grouse foraging on a rocky slope. No apparent birds strutting, but large number of pellets on the ground.
T looks for raven nests in GV, hunter barns, and hayfields. Does not find nesting birds on hillside to the south of GV road. Hunter barns birds are nesting in the shed. Hayfields birds are nesting to the Southwest of their original spot, closer to the road. No other birds seen nesting along hayfields row of cottonwoods, although I may have missed a nest along that row that Bryan later pointed out.

Mon, April 30, 2007

B and V trap at Moulton, no hens show up and no males go in front of launcher. V and B look for raven nests in spring gulch while T starts telemetry. B takes Hwy. 89 Northern, V takes antelope flats, and T takes hayfields and the airport. Several birds thought to be on nest.