Field Trips

This weekend went fairly well. On Friday I hung out with Dan Gregorash and Kirsten (don't know her last name) and watched some of the best of SNL. On Saturday, the U of A paleontological society went to Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park and we looked for dinosaur bones. We found a fair bit. It was mostly hadrosaur bits though a couple of people found Albertosaur tooth fragments. One fellow even found a nice little microsite that yielded a number of Albertosaur tooth fragments, a champsasaur vert, several hadrosaur teeth, ossified tendons and a partial raptor claw. Since its a provincial park we left everything where we found it. Perhaps some year the society should arrange with a rancher to look in the badlands on his property so that we can keep the fossils.
On Sunday, I woke up at 4 am to go bird watching with my Ornithology class. We went to the beaver hill banding station where we defrosted and put up mist nets to catch passerine birds. A net left up over night even caught a great horned owl. We also went to several marshes in the area to check out the waterfowl. All in all, the weekend went pretty well.