Finished up week 2 with the Conservation Biology Class at The Chincoteague Bay Field Station. Started the week with a nice early morning bird survey at Tom’s Cove at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. We saw a total of 35 bird species and a red fox. Set up rodent traps and sparrow traps this week. No success with rodents, but caught a few bird species including a common grackle, Northern mockingbird and house sparrows. Also, had some fun surf fishing. We caught a bullnosed ray, smooth dogfish shark, sandbar shark, king fish and a cownose ray. Looking forward to next week.
P.S. All animals were released safely after capture.