Our fearless leader, Stacey Lance, is away at a conference in Kansas City teaching the world about genetics and is unable to blog. Brian Metts and I will fill in while she's gone. We were excited to check the fences this morning as its been raining all night with at least 2 cm accumulated so far. However, when we met this morning to go check the drift fence we realized that David Scott beat us to the punch. David, afraid that the buckets may have filled up and could possible drown salamanders, had arrived very early and run the fence. He found 15 marbled salamanders in the buckets, fewer than we had expected. We think this may signify that the animals headed to the pond to breed this year have already made their move. As its going to continue to rain for the next day or so, we'll keep our fingers crossed that we get one more pulse of animals heading to the wetland, but it may be quiet for a while.
We'll head out tomorrow to see if the bay is filling up yet....
you guys should know by now you can't beat David to the fence! He has that salamander sense that drives him to the bay.
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