Observations
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18 August 2022
Gananoque Marina by Emma Ehrenfeld
Heavily maintained lawns (grass all dead - looked like sand at first!) go right to the waters edge, a busy marina, silty soft bottom. Plants: Richardsons pondweed, Eurasian milfoil, tapegrass, water nymph, elodea. Inverts: Damselflies, Zebra mussels. Invasive species: Zebra mussels, Eurasian milfoil.
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18 August 2022
Stave Island Wetland by Emma Ehrenfeld
Birds: Ring billed gull, osprey, great blue heron, red winged blackbird. Fish: Largemouth bass, Northern pike, brown bullhead catfish, pugnose shiner, round goby, tadpole madtom, bridle shiners, rock bass, bluegill sunfish, brook silverside, yellow perch, pumpkinseed sunfish. Plants: Eurasian milfoil, stargrass, bullrush, typha sp., phragmite, richardsons pondweed, elodea, rush, fragrant white waterlilies. Invertebrates: Damselfly sp., dragonfly sp., deerflies. Invasive species: Eurasian milfoil, phragmites, round goby. Species at risk: Bridle shiners, Pugnose shiners.
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18 August 2022
Forsyth Island North by Emma Ehrenfeld
Birds: American crow, osprey, mute(?) swan, belted kingfisher. Fish: Northern pike, golden shiner, tubenose goby, round goby, rock bass, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, pugnose shiners. Mammal: Mink. Plants: Willow trees, CHARA ALGAE, water nymph, tapegrass, star grass, Eurasian milfoil, Richardsons pondweed, elodea. Invertebrates: Zebra mussels. Invasive species: Zebra mussels, Eurasian milfoil, round gobies, tubenose gobies, mute(?) swan. Species at risk: Pugnose shiners.
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17 August 2022
Howe Island Bay by Emma Ehrenfeld
Amphibians: Leopard frog, bullfrog, green frog, American toad. Reptiles: Eastern Garter snake. Plants: Willow trees, typha sp., water plantain, tapegrass, elodea, wild grape. Fish: Round goby, tubenose goby, brown bullhead catfish, tadpole madtom, pugnose shiners, BANDED KILLIFISH, bluntnose minnows, bridle shiners, mudminnows, largemouth bass, rock bass. Invertebrates: Widow skimmer dragonfiles. Invasive species: round gobies, tubenose gobies. Species at risk: Pugnose shiner, bridle shiner.
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17 August 2022
Howe Island Ferry Terminal by Emma Ehrenfeld
Birds: Double-crested cormorants, ringbill gulls, canada geese. Fish: Round gobies, tubenose gobies, bluntnose minnow, pugnose shiner, banded killifish, largemouth bass, yellow perch. Invertebrates: Zebra mussels. Invasive species: Zebra mussels, tubenose and round gobies. Species at risk: Pugnose shiners.
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16 August 2022
Grenadier Island by Emma Ehrenfeld
Fish: Pugnose shiners (18 total!), largemouth bass, rock bass, bluntnose minnows, round goby. Plants: Richardsons pondweed, valonia algae, bullrush, chara algae, nitellopsis algae, rushes, typha, sago, water nymph. Birds: Common loon, Common tern, Double crested cormorant, Swan (mute or trumpeter?). Species at risk: Pugnose shiners Invasive species: round goby, nitellopsis algae, (mute swan?)
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15 August 2022
Riverside Cedar Beach by Emma Ehrenfeld
Plants: Tape grass, Eurasian milfoil, coontail, water plantain, stargrass, water marigold, water nymph, purple loosestrife, phragmites, chara algae, valonia algae. Birds: Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Eagle (heard it calling, unsure of species), ring billed gulls. Mammals: Beaver dam and evidence of their activity on the trees and shrubbery. Amphibians: Leopard frogs, heard green frogs. Fish: Golden shiner, bluntnose minnow, longnose gar, leopomis species, bluegill, yellow perch, brook silverside, mimic shiner, round gobies, tubenose gobies, tesselated darters. Invertebrates: bladder snail, marsh ramshorn snails, amber snails, bryozoans. Invasive species: Purple loosestrife, phragmites, Eurasian milfoil, round goby, tubenose goby.
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11 August 2022
Emma Ehrenfeld by Emma Ehrenfeld
Birds: seagull (sick) Plants: Chara, coontail, eurasian milfoil, burdock, tapegrass, stargrass, richardsons pondweed, arrowhead, purple loosestrife, phragmites, spearmint, deadly nightshade, stinging nettle. Fish: Longnose gar, yellow perch, round goby, largemouth bass, brown bullhead catfish, tubenose goby, bluntnose minnow, ROCK BASS, banded killifish. Invasive species: phragmites, purple loosestrife, eurasian milfoil, round goby, tubenose goby.
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11 August 2022
South Lancaster Wharf by Emma Ehrenfeld
Osprey, mourning doves, Zebra mussels Round gobies, sunfish sp.,
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10 August 2022
Inlet between River Institute and L’Heritage High School by Emma Ehrenfeld
Birds: Canada geese, house sparrow, american robin. Insects: Cabbage moth, caddisfly, stonefly, diptera sp. Plants: Richardsons pondweed, coontail, major, minor and starry duckweed, Eurasian milfoil, elodea, water nymph, fragrant white water lily, flatleaf pondweed, phragmite, purple loosestrife, black eyed susan, milkweed, poison ivy, touch-me-not, golden rod, willow trees, honeysuckle bushes. Fish: Longnose gar, largemout bass, smallmouth bass, round goby, mimic shiner, bluntnose minnow, fallfish, yellow perch, bluegill sunfish, pumpkinseed sunfish. Crustacean: Rusty crayfish and virile crayfish. Invasive species: purple loosestrife, phragmite, eurasian milfoil, round goby, rusty crayfish.
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9 August 2022
Zone 1 Rocky Reef by Emma Ehrenfeld
Birds: Canada geese, Double crested cormorants, gulls, mallards. Plants: LOTS of tapegrass, willow, burdock, willow trees, honeysuckle bushes. Fish: ~100 perch, rock bass, round gobies, fallfish, common carp. Insects: Caddisfly, damselfly. Invasive species: Round gobies, common carp.
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9 August 2022
Cornwall Island South Inlet by Emma Ehrenfeld
Birds: Red winged blackbird, common tern, double crested cormorant, mallard, house sparrow (or some type of wren?). Plants: Cow parsley (or wild carrot), poison parsnip, tape grass, Eurasian milfoil, elodea, typha sp., phragmite, algae, coontail, water plantain. Fish: Muskellunge! fallfish, brown bullhead catfish, small mouth bass, largemouth bass, rock bass, bluntnose minnow, white sucker, banded killifish, brook silverside.
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8 August 2022
Snye Marsh by Emma Ehrenfeld
Plants Purple loosetrife, phragmites, typha sp., bullrush, American burweed, elodea, arrowhead, pickrelweed, Fragrant white water lilies, Richardsons pondweed, sago, WATER NYMPH. Insects: Water scoprion, dragonfly larvae, aquatic caterpillar, giant water bug (young stage), water boatmen. Annelids: leeches Gastropods: Bladder snail, amber snail, greater pond snail. Amphibians: Green frog (heard). Fish: Largemouth bass, bluegill sunfish, lepomis (sunfish) species too small to identify, broke silversides, golden shiner, yellow perch, brown bullhead catfish, pumpkinseed sunfish, mimic shiner, bluntnose minnow, blackchin shiner.
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5 August 2022
Meadow Bay by Emma Ehrenfeld
The bottom here was covered in chara algae - thick mats of it Plants: algae sp., chara algae, tapegrass, yellow water lilies, fragrant white water lilies, richardsons pondweed, bullrush, phragmites, purple loosestrife, spearmint, ferns, milkweed, sedge/rush, water nymph. Birds: Bank swallows. Fish: Fallfish, mimic shiner, yellow perch, longnose gar, largemouth bass, gluegill, spotfin shiner, bluntnose minnow, blackchin shiner, round goby. Invasive species: Purple loosestrife, phragmites, round goby.
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4 August 2022
Rotary Creek by Emma Ehrenfeld
Insects: Caddisfly, Cicada, Gastropods: Pleuroceridae sp. (hard, striped, cone shaped shells, operculum (trapdoor)). Bivalves: Zebra Mussels Birds: Mallards, Great blue heron, gulls, double crested cormorants. Plants: Purple loosestrife, dogwood, phragmites. Invasive Species: Zebra Mussels, phragmites, purple loosestrife
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4 August 2022
Greys Creek Marina by Emma Ehrenfeld
Birds: Osprey, Mallards, Blue jay, red winged blackbird. Plants: Willow tree, tapegrass, lesser+greater duckweed, sumac sp., Yellow pondlilies.
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4 August 2022
South Lancaster Wharf by Emma Ehrenfeld
The water was very wavy and active. Birds: Double crested cormorants, gull sp. Plants: Phragmites, Eurasian Milfoil, chara algae, tapegrass, coontail, Fish: Sunfish sp., large mouth bass, perch, round gobies. Bivalve mollusks: Zebra mussels. Invasive species: Round gobies, zebra mussels, eurasian milfoil, pragmites.
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4 August 2022
Inlet between River Institute and L’Heritage High School by Emma Ehrenfeld
Birds: Mallards, CANADA GEESE, house sparrow, gulls (2 types - dont know species), American robin. Plants: Coontail, algae sp., Black eyed susan, willow, Queen Anne's Lace, Goldenrod, POISON IVY, milkweed, fragrant white waterlilies, sago, Eurasian milfoil. Fish: Round gobies Crustacean: Crayfish sp. Mollusks: Zebra mussels. Invasive species: Round gobies, zebra mussels, house sparrow.
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31 July 2022
Sutherland Creek West by Duncan Campbell Campbell
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