Tuesday, May 1, 2012

This video illustrates the basic method we used to catch Smilla.  In this video, Scott is giving it a try because we speculated that she could smell me when I drew near.  Scott might have been an unfamiliar scent not associated with capture attempts.  I don't think she heard Scott because his careful footsteps on the smooth grass would have been masked by the highway noise, the river noise, the birds, and the golfers.  She seemed to be asleep, but she would pop up when I would sneak within three feet of her.  I finally caught her by rushing the last ten feet and throwing the net on her even though she had gotten up and was starting to run.  Nothing went exactly as planned, but it worked. The map below shows the point of capture.
The map below shows Smilla's travels that we know of.