Week 2 at the Chincoteague Bay Field Station

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.