It has been a year and a half since I started at the Crane Foundation.
The worst part of this job:
Hair raising experiences on back country roads
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| will this covered bridge hold my weight? here's hoping! |
Very long, boring days and no weekends
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| Look what I made in a week and a half! |
Hipwaders and
floating mats
Long treks into the wilderness for dead cranes
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| This is not a lewd picture. You can feel the discomfort as dan adjusts his shorts in the chest waders after a long treck through the hot woods. sludging through swamps and being devoured by mosquitoes. |
The best part of this job:
Raising the whooping crane chicks for release
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| As provider |
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| As guardian |
Tracking the birds
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| Aerial tracking |
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| Ground tracking |
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| Triangulations |
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| And finding the cranes! |
Having an outdoor job: I am always in the beautiful outdoors. I have seen nearly every sunrise and sunset for the past year and a half.
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| Cayuga power plant, IN |
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| 2010 DAR cohort post release on East Rynearson |
Meeting and working with the locals
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| Charles Murray, crane enthusiast and retired teacher |
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| Local 5th graders at Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge |
The people I work with: Everyone here knows the goals we are working towards and they work well together. This is a wonderful environment for teamwork as well as personal growth. The whooping cranes (and other crane species) couldn't ask for better allies.
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| 2010 Field Ecology Department |
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| KARI!!! |
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| 2010 DAR interns |
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| Tom, the pilot, and Anne |
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| Dan! |
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| Myself, Eva, and Nancy from the DNR |
Thank you, Readers, for your comments and questions. Thank you, Crane Foundation, for being so wonderful.
Signing off until the next blog!
Jen Davis
Whooping Crane Tracker
International Crane Foundation
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