Lake Wallace, September 19, 2012
Perfect weather, dragonflies tackling the mosquitoes for us and lots to explore. Trees, aquatic life reveal just how healthy this ecosystem is. Answer: pretty darn good.
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| Giving a dragonfly a ride - and it stayed on the hat the whole time! |
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| Lake Wallace, undisturbed |
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| Garter snake, happy to warm up on our hands |
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| Newt ... is it heading to the water for the winter? |
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| ready for the water |
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| just what kind of fish are in here? |
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| Identify, measure, map |
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| Discovering that what lives in this water translates into pretty good quality habitat |
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| Levy and Clark's 2nd graders still trying to figure out how tall those trees are |
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| This time, he's ready to be in the water ... but maybe not much deeper! |
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| Yiite gets a swamp sample |
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| A lovely spot to sit and think. |
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| Take care, little salamander |
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| Mike, discovering new species |
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The gummy-blob ... just what is that thing? The consistency of a gummy worm, slimy, just under the waters' surface, the fish were picking at it, the raised areas had a starburst pattern, and the spore (released 2 days later) are shown below in images from the digital microscope. Some were just a few inches across, the largest was a solid 2 feet across
After much searching ... it's a bryozoan colony! |
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| gummy-blob spore 60x, with cattail strands |
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| spore at 200x ... anyone want to guess? |
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| Dragonfly molt |
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| Logan, still ready to explore at the end of the day |
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