Ah! An enormous spider! That is a pencil below it. We had to work right below him, luckily he didn't fall on us. O_O
A lovely frog I captured:
The most frightening part of fieldwork is placing tiny temperature logger devices in the stream. We are to select deep pools where they are unlikely to be washed away in a flood, and they have to be tethered with thick wire onto tree roots/trunks. Submerged tree parts kind of give me the willies, not as bad as man-made objects underwater, though. Here I am wiring a logger in place, among some washed up barbed wire that is not visible in the photo.
We passed by the raven statue again so I got my photo taken with it!
Nearly unbearably cute mini-turtle:
We have seen soooo many turtles this summer. One day we saw 14 turtles. So far we have seen two LARGE softshell turtles, 3-4 snapping turtles, lots of 'other' water turtles, and countless box turtles, of the ornate and three-toed varieties. Luckily we have an ample supply of hand sanitizer, as my turtle-studying friend tells me they carry salmonella. Eek.
