I had a great day at work today!
I'm a fish biologist and we are starting a brook trout monitoring study in north central PA (Sinnemahoning Creek watershed). So today I was running arround to all our proposed study streams deploying temperature loggers and witnessed something I'd never seen before - All 4 PA big game species in a single day!
Saw several does and fawns, a hen turkey with polts (yes turkeys are considered big game in PA), a good sized black bear, and the biggest bull elk I've ever seen. Even in velvet with quite a bit of growing time left he was still the biggest bull I've ever seen. Going to be a monster come this fall. It figures that I didn't have a camera with me.
Yep, it sure beat sitting behind the computer crunching numbers and writing reports today and got my blood pumping for hunting season (4 long months from now.)
Just thought I'd share a new experience for me....