Pictures!

Hi everyone,

pictures will be posted on this website from now on. I will stop using this blog, so use the following website to see any pictures I upload throughout the year

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Summer job!

Hey everyone!

Here are some pictures from my summer job.

I am in the middle of 6 weeks of field work on the Hudson River, near Kingston, NY.

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Late Spring in Ithaca: lots of allergies but lots of beauty

Pregnant deer!


A fly, that has evolved to mimic a bee! The wildflower is called Spring Beauty.


A natural forest

A bunny enjoying the fresh grass in the yard.



Trees enjoying the rain

Taughannock Falls

It's not as wide as Niagra, but it is taller! It was pretty cool walking through the gorge to get there!

Deer on campus

Pictures from the deer study

Deer population study

To attract deer to cameras used in this week's population study, which will give us an estimate of how many deer are on campus, we use apples!

We place the apples in front of a thermal-sensitive camera.




The deer quickly learned to wait for us to come and replenish the apple supply.

Snow!

Classic deer damage at my own home!

So why do people want to reduce deer populations? I said REDUCE, not eliminate. We love seeing them in our backyards, I mean look at that face! That's a female fawn that sleeps in the backyard, by the way.




Well this is definitely undesirable. But a VERY common sight here. I haven't seen a single house that doesn't have this damage, called "browse lines"
I mean, imagine a beautiful garden you have or a nicely kept hedgerow.... that turns like this once the snow falls. Even I was disappointed!



My footprints. Their footprints. And a pile of poop.

Deer adventures

The deer look particularly cute in the wintertime. From looking like orange kangaroos in the summer, they look like little fluffy huggable cuties now!




One of our tagged ones I tracked this morning.



More tagged deer!

Double rainbow!

It's raining Skittles!

New York State Fair

Went to the State Fair yesterday in Syracuse. It was pretty nice, LOTS of people, LOTS of fried food,



(like, oh my god)


and lots of local vendors. You could buy anything form local milk, to ice cream, to honey, maple syrup, cowboy hats, anything! And you could play those really loud and annoying games and win prizes. And there were lots of rides, including ferris wheels. But those make me sick so no rides for me.
And there were lots of show animals!





There was a Mullet Count. Business in the front, party in the back.



Cows!




Bunnies!




Chickens!



Horses!



Lil piggies!

New semester!

Hi everyone! Everything is going fine here. Classes are MUCH better now that I changed my major to Natural Resources. More about classes later.

This is what I've been up to with my new job as a deer research project tech.

We catch deer, sterilize them, and release them with radio collars and ear tags! Here is one of them from tonight

Pictures from the Annex!

I uploaded pictures! No embarrassing ones, don't worry :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39291916@N05/sets/72157624669267044/

The new horses

Welcome, gypsy cobbs! If only you were all better behaved. They kick and bite because they are not trained :(

Makes my job harder.

It's a baybay.
FAT COW HORSE!

Some summer nature...

Ithaca is beautiful in the summer! Some things I have found around the barn:

Lots of song sparrows

AND THE BIGGEST SPIDER I HAVE EVER FOUND.
Behold the yellow and black garden spider. Harmless, but it was 2.5 inches long (EWWWW).

More from the veggie garden

More form the Annex vegatable garden! Above, CORN!
Onion!
Big cabbage...

The daily harvest.
Experiments on how to use the daily harvest. Squash cake, squash flower quesadillas, and zucchini/onion fritters.

A day at work

Good morning horsies (and I do mean morning. I mean 7am in the morning).

And you're probably going to ask me this. No, we do not ride the horses. They are not at the barn to be ridden, they are at the barn to recover from operations or injuries.

Grazing.... more grazing.......

Looks like a cow :)

Pretty horsie.

The humble veggie garden.

Cabbage!

PEAS GALORE!

Today's pickings.

Flor de calabaza! Time to make some quesadillas.

Corn and squash are looking quite lovely.

I can drive this! Call me a farm girl, I know how to do all the farm jobs now~