Troy, my Ph.D. adviser, want out to the field to perform maintenance on our water level calculation research sites at Spring Creek (a small tributary of Bazile Creek). He retrieved images from the site. I am always amazed and never going to tire of seeing the wildlife that photo-bomb the images. We have seen many raccoon and cow images over the years, but also many birds, bison, and deer. I had no idea how extensive wildlife variety and variation in ecology throughout the state when I started the degree at University of Nebraska. We got to hear super interesting lectures on all that from experts in the ecosystem technicalities, but also by policy makers, commercial interests, and recreational users in the graduate seminars. Those graduate seminars should be a topic for another blog post because they were such an integral element of my experience in both my MS at University of Texas at El Paso and my Ph.D. at UNL.