TURTLE TRACKS

"CATHERINE'S TRACKS"

DAY 3:


Location: Catherine has moved approx. 35 feet East of her last position.

Activity Status: on surface, head out, alert and sitting under a Multiflora Rose bush in trench-like path ending in a form under a tangled mass of thorny stems.

Habitat: Grassy field with clumps of thick grasses, Multiflora Rose, Blackberry and young Yellow Poplar and Black Locust approx. 15 feet from edge of regenerating forest.


Day 03 stats

Date: 05-23-08

Release time: 4:30 pm.

Elevation: 2736'

Humidity: 45.6%RH

Temperature of soil @ 5" deep: 67.8 F

Temperature: 81.8 F at ground level.

Temperature: 82.3 F 5 feet above ground level.

Temperature over entire study site: 81.5F at weather station on lodge.

Precipitation over last 24 hours: 0"

Weather: P/C, sunny, DSLR: 3.

Winds: slight breeze from the west.

Barometric Pressure: 910.9 mbar

Moon Phase: waning gibbous 87% of full.

Other animal activity in area: none

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