A skunk was seen while last in Stump Creek, Pennsylvania. Yes, I went out to photograph it, and while it aimed at me, it did not fire.
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Here are a few of my friends doing a winter bat count last winter. Enjoy, as this is a fun one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfLIVlRmhTw#t=15 ![]() When we surveyed Woodward Cave,a commercial cave in Pennsylvania, there were a few low, muddy bits that looked promising to find new cave. Here is one. Jennifer Murray's (now Jennifer Christenson, my wife) muddy boots and dirty pants are seen as she was digging clay out of the passage. We found about 120 feet of virgin cave when the dig opened up. That's not a lot of virgin cave, but any time you are the first person to set foot on a bit of planet Earth, it is amazing. I have had a computer fail, and for now am locked out of my photo folder. This is not fun stuff but I am working on it. I will hit my second hard drive to find a pic .
Bumbled off to Pennsylvania this past weekend. Some photos from the trip. First off, a bit of ATV riding. Along the way, we stopped at the McGees Mills covered bridge. The scenery at the bridge was quite nice. Ticks are little blood suckers that can pass on diseases. Not fun things. But the wood tick, also known as the dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), does not carry the Lyme Disease, a scourge in the eastern US.
Here are two pics of this tick, from the underside and the top. I haven't posted anything from Ohio for a while, so here is a pic from Cambridge. Or not, as I can't get my server to allow me to put up a pic right now. This is getting old. Okay, 30 minutes of working on this and I got the pic up.
I haven't posted any bats-in-comics links for a while, so here is one from September 23.
http://www.gocomics.com/barneyandclyde/2014/09/23 And another one from August 23. http://www.gocomics.com/barneyandclyde/2014/09/23 Getting to this position took some time. We were 60 meters above the cave floor, plus or minus a few meters. We set up the LiDAR and got the 3D data. Benjamin Schroeter was at the instrument.
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