Greetings from Portal Arizona. Somewhere near the New Mexico border. Portal is a very small convenience store and a bed and breakfast for birders. I’m not here for birding though. I and 19 other sleep deprived people are here for a six day bat detection and identification workshop. Class during the day and bat trapping or acoustic sampling at night. Typically about five hours of sleep a night, plus a three hour time change.
Western pipistrelle call
We are in the Southwest Research Station, a research station for the American Museum of Natural History. In a place called Cave Creek Canyon. Supremely beautiful and zero cell phone reception. Got 30 new bird species just here around the station. Gotta run because I’m on net kit duty. More on this little adventure later.
Views from the research station.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 