I made another morning trip up to the Prescott Peninsula to conduct more field bird surveys. Today I was joined by four students from Smith College to conduct the surveys and show them the protocols for the surveys. I was running a bit ahead of their arrival so I went it to get a couple quick surveys completed before we met up. As I was headed back to the gate to meet them I ran across a pair of Moose lazily eating from maple leaves. Always fun to see any Moose and two together is even better. Once we all met up we spent about three hours on the peninsula. Although we didn't see any more Moose we did see a Black Bear to add to the large mammal tally for the day. We had some evidence of breeding at multiple stops it was overall slow in adding positive data on breeding. Nonetheless it was a beautiful morning and we had some interesting sightings including at least one flyover Red Crossbill and a family of Ruffed Grouse right along the side of the road.
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