Mac English
Dinosaur Field School
6/30-7/30/2010
We miss you.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Thank You to All.
It is Monday Morning, August 2nd, 5:42AM. The sunrise calls of Lark Sparrows chitter on the hillside above my tent. Far off a thin whisp of clouds hang over the still dim hogback ridges. A half disolved moon sits where a blazing noon time sun will soon dictate the pace of the day's work. If all goes well, the rest of our Diplodocus fossils will be jacketed and lugged down to our waiting transport.The Quarry that has provided a wealth of knowledge will be backfilled and converted once again into a rolling rocky landscape silent to the intrusion of man Glenn and Crew would like to thank every single person who helped in this 2010 Mother's Day Expedition. Their help has given us a chance to jacket-up nearly 180 remnants of a fantastic herbiverous sauropod dinosaur named "Diplodocus". Every bone found helps us better understand the great 
history of our planet and will be kept, prepared and preserved for future generations, which is the mission of the Cincinnati Museum Center. Knowledge is to be shared and passed on. Quality specimens like the ones at Mother's Day will be available to those who come after us, so that they may further what is known today. The land that we dig on is Federal Property and is managed by the Federal Bureau of Land Management. In the past month officials have checked in on us and they will keep an eye on the Mother's Day Site to make sure that next summer's exploration will continue.Please keep looking for new blog entries as I plan to post many more. We now begin the long journey home to Cincinnati with great expectations for 2011.
The Crew
Wildlife in Abundance
We have seen many different animals on our trip from Cincinnati to Bridger. Below is a list of the ones we could identify.
Dan***
American Pipit, Barn Swallow, Black Billed Magpie, Black Capped Chickadee, Blue Jay, Bobcat, Box Turtle, Brewers Black Bird, Brewers Sparrow, Brown Headed Cowbird,
Bullock’s Oriole, Canada Goose, Cardinal, Carolina Chickadee, Chipmunk, Chipping Sparrow, Chucker, Clark’s Nutcracker, Common Nighthawk, Common Poor Will, Coyote, Crow, Double Crested Cormorant, Dusky Grouse, Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Green Racer, Eastern King Bird Eastern Meadowlark, Elk, Goldfinch, Grackle, Great Blue Heron, Great Horned Owl, Great Tailed Grackle, Green Heron, Green Tailed Towhee, Hairy Woodpecker, Hawks, Horned Lark, Horned Toad, House Finch, House Sparrow, House Wren, Jackalope, Jackrabbit, Kangaroo Rat, Kestrel, Killdeer, Lager Headed Shrike, Lark Sparrow, Long Billed Curlew, Lots of Little Lizards, Mice, Mice, Mice, Mountain Chickadee, Mourning Dove, Mule Deer Northern Harrier, Northern Red Shafted Flicker, Orchard Oriole, Pika, Pine Siskin, Pink Sided 
Junco, Pinyon Jay, Prairie Dog, Prairie Rattlesnake, Pronghorn Antelope, Raccoon, Raven, Red Breasted Nuthatch, Red Tailed Hawk, Redwing Blackbird, Ring Billed Gull, Ring Necked Pheasant, Robin, Rock Dove, Ruby Crowned Kinglet, Ruddy Duck, Rufus Sided Hummingbird, Sandhill Crane, Say’s Phoebe, Scissor Tailed Flycatcher, Sharp Tailed grouse, Short Tailed Weasel, Spotted Towhee, Starling, Titmouse, Townsend’s Solitaire, Turkey Vulture, Upland Sandpiper, Violet Green Swallow, Warbling Vireo, Western Cotton Tail, Western King Bird, Western Meadowlark, White Pelican, Whitetail Deer, Wild Turkey, Wood Rat, Yellow Billed Marmot.
Dan***
American Pipit, Barn Swallow, Black Billed Magpie, Black Capped Chickadee, Blue Jay, Bobcat, Box Turtle, Brewers Black Bird, Brewers Sparrow, Brown Headed Cowbird,
Bullock’s Oriole, Canada Goose, Cardinal, Carolina Chickadee, Chipmunk, Chipping Sparrow, Chucker, Clark’s Nutcracker, Common Nighthawk, Common Poor Will, Coyote, Crow, Double Crested Cormorant, Dusky Grouse, Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Green Racer, Eastern King Bird Eastern Meadowlark, Elk, Goldfinch, Grackle, Great Blue Heron, Great Horned Owl, Great Tailed Grackle, Green Heron, Green Tailed Towhee, Hairy Woodpecker, Hawks, Horned Lark, Horned Toad, House Finch, House Sparrow, House Wren, Jackalope, Jackrabbit, Kangaroo Rat, Kestrel, Killdeer, Lager Headed Shrike, Lark Sparrow, Long Billed Curlew, Lots of Little Lizards, Mice, Mice, Mice, Mountain Chickadee, Mourning Dove, Mule Deer Northern Harrier, Northern Red Shafted Flicker, Orchard Oriole, Pika, Pine Siskin, Pink Sided 
Junco, Pinyon Jay, Prairie Dog, Prairie Rattlesnake, Pronghorn Antelope, Raccoon, Raven, Red Breasted Nuthatch, Red Tailed Hawk, Redwing Blackbird, Ring Billed Gull, Ring Necked Pheasant, Robin, Rock Dove, Ruby Crowned Kinglet, Ruddy Duck, Rufus Sided Hummingbird, Sandhill Crane, Say’s Phoebe, Scissor Tailed Flycatcher, Sharp Tailed grouse, Short Tailed Weasel, Spotted Towhee, Starling, Titmouse, Townsend’s Solitaire, Turkey Vulture, Upland Sandpiper, Violet Green Swallow, Warbling Vireo, Western Cotton Tail, Western King Bird, Western Meadowlark, White Pelican, Whitetail Deer, Wild Turkey, Wood Rat, Yellow Billed Marmot.
Monday, August 02, 2010
Farewell to Youth
The Third and Final Session is at an end. In the Quarry, the last of the Crew....Lamont, Caleb, Glenn & Son, doggedly persist in the Montana sun; retrieving the last of the season's bones. Any revealed bone must be jacketed or else weather will destroy the fossil. The youth have done well and their help on the dino wheels is much appreciated. We hope they had fun and learned a lot. D'Alecy's femur was plucked on Wednesday, its in great shape packed on the trailer ready to go home to Cincy. On Monday we start to close the site. The work is far from done. Keep checking the blog. There is much more to come.The Crew
Sunday, August 01, 2010
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