Dataset

Friends of Swan Creek Watershed

Dataset summary

Observations

  • 25 March 2025

    McKenzie Underpass Forest/Columbine Riffle by John Coates

    just 2' above water level = 3 skunk cabbage bursting into Bud & bloom >> must be the warmth of Spring!

  • 25 March 2025

    Art's Riffle by John Coates

    VERY High water level from past 3 days mild but intense 'atmospheric river' Water Gauge @ (Swan Cr. mouth) Violet-Colquitz R. bridge Read 7.0 feet

  • 27 January 2025

    Swan Lake by John Coates

    pair of mallards in reeds ... coot poking around

  • 27 January 2025

    Columbine Culvert Downstream by John Coates

    Spawning gravel has noticeably moved downstream into riffle (coho action combined with rainfall flow of Nov.Dec.)

  • 27 January 2025

    McKenzie Underpass Forest/Columbine Riffle by John Coates

    2 pair of dabbling Mallards are finding something of interest in this reach of the creek today.

  • 27 January 2025

    Art's Riffle by John Coates

    high spawning activity with Dec. rains have moved gravel into noticeable bars downstream ... above and below the riffle