On Monday evening, I went out on an owl survey with a bunch of the other interns. This survey is part of ongoing owl monitoring in Minnesota and Wisconsin through Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory. (http://www.hawkridge.org/research/springowl.html)
Each person or group that volunteers is given a route. They are then responsible to go out in early april to conduct the survey. The route is 10 miles long with volunteers stopping every mile and documenting which species were heard in a 5 minute time period.
At the end of the evening, my group didn't hear any owls. We did have a run in with a home owner, who upon seeing us, asked if we were out having a flashlight party. We also got to hear numerous fun frog calls including the spring peeper, wood frog and cricket frogs.
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