Category: Notes from the field

• Notes From the Field: Burrowing Owl

  

  I turn over in bed and look at the clock its 230am. Normally I would roll over in bed and sleep for another few hours before work but today is not a normal day. I scuffle around in the dark like a sleepy possum and somehow make it out the door with all my gear.…

  betsydionne

  July 6, 2016

  Notes from the field

  bird banding, burrowing owl, field biology, nature, ornithology, ourdoorwoman, owls, raptor, raptor banding, Southern-California, wildlife, wildlife ecology

• Notes from the Field- Burrowing Owl

  

  It has been awhile since I have posted anything about my life working as a Southern California biologist. Mostly this is due to the winter being our slow season. I spend alot of time planning in the winter, getting ready up for the spring when things tend to get a little crazy. Due to the…

  betsydionne

  February 6, 2016

  Field biology, Notes from the field

  burrowing owl, Ecology, field biology, nature, raptor, Southern-California, wildlife, wildlife ecology, women in science

• Notes from the field- Western Pond Turtle

  

  I cut my teeth as a wildlife biologist out in the North Maine woods fighting mosquitoes and black flies, often times shivering in the winter cold or sweating in the humidity of the summer. I always seemed to be covered in poison ivy with bruised shins from running around in the maze of dog hair fir…

  betsydionne

  September 12, 2015

  Notes from the field

  adventure, Ecology, field biology, science