So as everyone knows I had a job interview today. Meaning that I missed out on the natural history hike and also the program I was originally supposed to help with. And due the fact I haven't taught in a while I will be talking about Nature Fest and a little about the bird watching walk I went on with Lisa's undergrads.
Overall Nature fest wasn't a complete bust for me and my wetlands training. I had one person who was brave enough to come to it. That person was Josiah, who I know and interact with when in Goshen. The session went really well, it helped that he was very familiar already with a lot of the chemical testing methods and knew what the chemicals were and why we were testing for them. So for the most part if was fairly relaxed and informal. It was really nice to teach someone else the procedures of the monitoring and have him actually be able to go out and do the sampling. So overall it was really good and if there is next time I hope to have more people come do the training.
So to make up for the hike that I missed I went out the Lisa and her undergrads to watch for birds. I must say, I didn't have my head on straight and forgot to bring binoculars so that limited me to what I could look at. However, it was really fun and I saw some very interesting birds. I think that her student's really enjoyed looking for birds and were happy to be out, even if it was 7am.
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