Wellfleet Bay Day 5

Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

 

Day: 5

Date: 6/2/09

Day one was quite fun. I started by doing some office work and emailing volunteers in the database. I familiarized myself with the various drives and files on the computer and after maybe an hour and a half, my boss (Mark) and I went out in the Prius to check out some local nests in the area. We drove North on Route 6 and hit up the local general store which is actually really old. There’s a sweet summer deli in the back and he treated me to lunch. I got the roadhouse which was a roast beef bbq type sandwich. It was very good. We then looked behind the general store in a marsh where we could see a nest with an osprey incubating eggs. We ended up visiting two or three other sites all which had active osprey either defending the area or incubating the eggs. We even saw a juvenile Bald Eagle flying around one of the nests. The osprey didn’t seem to like this very much.

Day two, today, was spent in the office making contacts with the volunteers and working on coordinates. Most of the volunteers were kind of both the phone and both in email. But notice how I said most... Haha, one guy seemed to be upset that we were organizing. He said “ Damn, sometime good is going on and someone has to go and try to organize it”. Strange... He ended the email with “Thanks, don’t call me.” Hahaha, oh well. Not everyone still wants to participate as monitors I suppose. I’m hoping to be able to go home this weekend but I’m not sure if there is anything for me to do work wise so we’ll see.

I’ve heard from Meg and she is in Seattle doing training now. She’s going to try to get a cell phone so hopefully we’ll all hear more of her voice! :) I sure miss my lady right about now. Until another time!

Mike