In the swing of things

Sorry its been a few days, we were officially released from our duties of keeping our daily blog once we have started working on our wikispace, but we've had some cool developments, so I wanted to take a minute and post them here. Plus give you the link to our wikispace: http://blackgumtree.wikispaces.com/ The last few days have been quite an adventure. We returned on Monday to our plot and we were all feeling a bit uncomfortable with all the mosquitos, so we took care of the day's tasks and high tailed it out of there. When we got back to campus we were anxious to look at the pictures from the wildlife cameras from the weekend. Guess what we found:

Thats right! A black bear wandered right through our site!!! Crazy!
We also got a picture of a deer (that I don't have on my computer, but go to the wikispace it's there).  The last few days we have found a bunch of evidence of other animals as well, obviously the porcupine scat but we found some quills today and there is also a hole in one of the trees from a wood pecker. As well as midden piles from a red squirrel. We are moving right a long with things, today we took DBH of an adjacent site that has much younger trees so we could compare it with our site.  We also set out a flour and paper device to try to capture some tracks. The next few days are going to be SUPER busy with our philosophy statements due and wrapping up the projects.  Goal will just to be to get enough sleep and try to stay sane through these next 8 days.