I was hoping to post pictures of how I do the salinity testing on the refuge tonight, but there was a fly in the ointment with that plan. I’ll have to do that next week. I picked up fellow volunteer, Jim, to take him along with me since I would be doing a back road that hadn’t had much use since hurricane Ike hit. It turned out that the only pictures I could take were from the safety of the refuge vehicle. We’ve got several white-tailed kites on the refuge right now. We did one test on the back road, but were accosted by thousands of mosquitoes. I was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, and had to put the hood up and pull the strings to only leave a small area open on my face. My only other exposed skin was my hands. After that one trip out of the suburban, we decided to forget about the rest of the tests. I’ve never seen the mosquitoes that bad. Sitting in the car, the windows were covered with them! We itched our way down th...
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