While I was in Evergreen, I was reawakened to the wonder in the everyday. I saw it afresh, because it wasn’t just any day for me. I spent most of the first day of my vacation walking around a park at the center of town, where plenty of locals were taking their morning walks. I […]

We stayed in Denver last night to enjoy some city amenities and the urban ecology scene today! We walked around the greenbelt a bit in hopes of seeing some western birds, but didn’t see many. In the adjacent neighborhood though, we saw a beautiful dark morph western red-tailed hawk! Then, sadly I had to drop Paul […]

We meandered our way back to the city from Salida, with many birding detours! Just outside of town, we stopped at a housing community to see a flock of pinyon jays. Then, we went back a different route than the way we came through the mountains. I hiked to the first “peak” (I think to the saddle?) […]

When we left for the lek at 5:15 AM it was 28°F. We anticipated this by studying the weather before we left, so I brought all my cold weather gear. We were planning to use the Jeep as a blind, which would require sitting still for an untold number of hours until the Gunnison sage-grouse […]

We went to the open space park adjacent to the ranch and walked the shadow pines loop. We ended the night at the inn to get set for our main goal of the trip! When we parked close to our room in the evening, I saw a pink-sided dark-eyed junco in the trees next to the […]

Prepping for CO this time of year, and for all of our destinations, meant packing for a range of conditions (20’s to 80 °F to be exact)! I also bought some new gear that worked out great today. When I got started at 7 AM, it was 30°F so I donned my new LL Bean […]

Simply sharing a link that expands on the famous Gotelli (2008) 2×2 analysis box to cases of multivariate response, mixed predictors, and other model types to consider: roadmap of statistical approaches Literature Cited Gotelli, N.J. 2008. A Primer of Ecology. 4th edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA.

http://zunzun.com/StatisticalDistributions/1/

I currently work on several projects… a contracted project for The Nature Conservancy, relating LiDAR to ground-based measures database & website management for the Coastal Wetland Monitoring (CWM) project Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council various database/web management needs for the bird & wildlife lab

Today was the 1st time Paul and I have ever led a tour, and we were thrilled with how the day turned out! It was rewarding to be able to choose a route, and not to brag or anything, but we ended up having the best single day I’ve ever had guiding the festival! Much […]