Hi everyone! I've been super busy lately, sorry I haven't been able to share pictures recently! But I'm making up for it now... :)
A few days after the Tern Census, I got to go out and tag horseshoe crabs! It was really cool.
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| A tagged horseshoe crab |
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| HSC waiting to be tagged (well, put back in the water at least) |
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The smaller birds are chicks of the herring gulls!
They look like tiny ostriches running around, they were too funny. |
Interesting fact, horseshoe crabs aren't crabs at all! They are arachnids, making them more closely related to spiders or scorpions.
Since then, I've been doing more officework, nothing too exciting to talk about. Yesterday, however, I got to work with the terns again! We were doing a productivity count - basically all summer, they count the number of eggs, see how many survive to fledge, and so on. For me, though, it was basically a day of counting (and playing with) baby tern chicks!
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| A brand new tern chick, too little to disturb. |
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| Some older chicks...they always like to cuddle together :) |
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| Little chicks learning to use their legs! Running around everywhere. |
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| The "chick corral," where we rounded them up while counting them |
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| This adult tern was trying to stand on the nest box, but kept sliding down... |
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| The biologist, showing off a Laughing Gull chick |
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| One of the rarer Roseate Tern chicks |
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| "Rosie" chicks have purple legs! |
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| Finally got to see the seals |
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