TURTLE TRACKS

"BONES TRACKS"

DAY 40:

Location: Bones is still in hibernation. He is buried under about 5 inches of leaf litter at the base of a Rhododendron a few feet from a 3' diameter pine log.

Activity Status: Inactive and in hibernation

Habitat: Rhododendron thicket on east facing slope.

Day 40 stats

Date: 03-28-08

Location time: 11 am.

Elevation: same

Relative Humidity at ground level: 47.0%

Temperature of soil @ 5" deep 47.8F

Temperature at ground level: 63.2F

Temperature 5 feet above ground level: 61.9F

Weather: Clear, sunny rain-TShowers predicted for next 24 hrs.

Winds: calm.

Barometric Pressure: 918.3

Moon Phase: waning gibbous 59% of full.

Other animal activity in area: none

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