Just a quick post to let you know how things have been progressing in the last month or so...
After much too-ing and fro-ing with the manufacturer, we've just been sent the new finalised geolocator model we'll be deploying this spring on rollers in Portugal and Cyprus. It's amazing that such relatively complicated pieces of kit can be made so small (ours come in at under 3g, which is nothing to a roller).
My colleague Tom has also sorted out our PIT tag and radio-frequency recorder equipment. It's all very Heath Robinson; Tom and I will be spending a significant chunk of this week trying to manufacture coloured leg rings incorporating the tags, using home-made moulds and a veritable cornucopia of solvents and adhesives.
Only seven weeks to the start of this year's field season...
