Ryan during a nest check
Nest searching is over officially now and we are on to brood drives and bait trapping. I am glad to see the rope drags stowed away. Dragging a thick 60' rope though floating bogs, flooded grass and over tussocks, frankly sucks! It's cool to find nests and to be out in the field...also the workout is tremendous. However 3 to 6 hours of dragging that rope is brutal. It's often pretty warm out here and the bugs can be merciless. Imagine dragging a rope though chin high grass and tussocks, working up some mean swamp ass only to have to walk through some flooded grass, horestails and much. Every step is in sucking mud and you excite hordes of blood crazed mosquitoes. It reminds me of the opening sceen in Day of Dead when the protagonists are searching with a helicopter the post zombie apocalypse Miami for survivors. At first they find nothing but abandoned city. You even see an aligator walking down the street and a news paper blows by with the headline, "The Dead Rise" or something to that effect. The Cat Stevens looking dude keeps yelling "Heeeelllloooo, Heeeelllllooo", looking for human survivors. At this poit the movie shows zombies starting to wake up as they hear the yelling. Eventually the zombies mass and head toward the search crew. The Jamacian chopper piolot exclaims, "Listen, you can 'ear it over da engine" as the collective moan from the undead horde approaches. This is what the mosquitoes are like, one minute nothing, then you disturb the wet grass and then you can just hear this hum and suddenly you are in a cloud of hundreds of blood frienzied drones.
So now that is over and I will celebrate by posting pictures of ducklings!
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