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While
Danielle was writing her thesis I returned to conduct a second season
of badger work in southern Ontario, following up on our work from the
previous year.
For more information on badgers visit ontariobadgers.com |
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 We spent some time in the winter in Kingston |
 The view of our apartment building from the bay |
 A farm near Tillsonburg |
 A farm north of Tillsonburg. |
 Tallgrass/fallow area near Simcoe, with the always enjoyable Butterfly Milkweed |
 A huge storm rolls in to our field house |
 Danielle tends her new herb garden. |
 Farm road through an orchard where we had been doing some work |
 We found several burrows along the edge of this field |
 Railbed near Simcoe |
 Badger/groundhog burrows near Tillsonburg |
 A typically sandy farm road in Norfolk County |
 Our primary work vehicle, leased from the good folks at Broadway Sales and Leasing in Delhi |
 A farm near Straffordville |
 Someone's garden spreading out into a fallow field |
 The north shore of Lake Erie is becoming quite the spot for wind turbines |
 Port Burwell |
 Fishing at Port Burwell |
 A partially overgrown farm junk pit. Lots of our work was in these places |
 Railroads are good corridors for researchers as well |
 Port Rowan |
 Rondeau Provincial Park |
 The marsh trail at Rondeau |
 Jimmy-rigged telemetry mount for the Ford Focus worked surprisingly well |
 A farm near Hagersville |
 An old cemetery right at the coast |
 Dilapidated tobacco kilns near our field house |
 The view from our front door |
 An oddly shaped cloud moving in over Lake Erie |
 A large wave by lake standards |
 One of many vernal pools that make Norfolk's forests so diverse |
 Catfish Creek |
 Port Rowan boathouses |
 Big Creek Marsh |
 Lake Ontario |
 Who knows what a couch is doing here, but it made an interesting picture |
 It's not often you see tobacco kilns that are still in working order |
 Dusk in a Norfolk woodlot |
 It this looks out of place, it's because it is. Norfolk is taking their tourism tagline a bit too far |
 Port Dover |
 Port Dover |
 A large sugar maple at midnight under a full moon |
 Our field house under a full moon |
 Bright moon, but still a few stars to be seen |
 Sunrise over Long Point |
 The basil is threatening to overrun the herb garden |
 A large pepper field surrounded our field house. |
 Webster's falls, near Hamilton |
 Webster's Falls |
 The creek running through Spencer's Gorge |
 Pumpkins are a common crop near Waterford |
 A motion sensing camera on a badger burrow |
 Our kitchen window, outside looking out |
 Carolinian Forest |