This week at the Stiles Farm, I continued working on my vegetation surveys. The area that I am currently surveying was part of a prairie grass replanting effort over a decade ago and contains many native prairie grasses such as eastern gamagrass, indiangrass, and sideoats grama. The restoration of the native grassland habitat in this area likely contributed to the northern bobwhite sighting I had last week at one of my survey points. Due to a variety of factors including habitat loss, northern bobwhites have been absent from this area for years. This week I cleared an area adjacent to the survey point where I heard the bobwhite calling and set up a bait station with a game camera. From the data collected by the camera, we hope to get a better idea of the population density of northern bobwhites in this area.
AnMarie Ulery
