Observations
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6 July 2022
Bittern Creek West by Emma Ehrenfeld
Macrophytes included flowering Richardsons pondweed, tape grass, curly leaf pondweed, and flatleaf pondweed. There were many lesser pond snails and their eggs could easily be seen on the stems and leaves of plants.
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6 July 2022
Mouth of Bittern Creek by Emma Ehrenfeld
Plants: Typha, Sedge, coontail/fanwort? elodea, Richardsons pondweed, Eurasian milfoil, yellow pondlilies, and curly leaf pondweed. Birds seen included common and black terns, and a great blue heron.
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6 July 2022
Bittern Creek East by Emma Ehrenfeld
Plants: Phragmites, tape grass, Eurasian milfoil, elodea, sago and typha. Birds included European starlings, great egrets, and red winged blackbirds.
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5 July 2022
Rotary Creek by Emma Ehrenfeld
Rocky bottom area with moving water - rocks covered in algae. We saw mallards, double-crested cormorants, herring gulls, and a great blue heron. There were thousands of young-of-year perch, white suckers, and minnow species. Other fish included rock bass, bluntnose minnows and mimic shiners.
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5 July 2022
Zone 2 Rocky Reef by Emma Ehrenfeld
very rocky bottom, deep sediment. We saw female and male mallards - no ducklings though. Fish species included rock bass, bluntnose shiners, and killifish. There were also a surplus of young-of-year perch and largemouth bass. Macrophytes seen were flatleaf pondweed, richardsons pondweed, elodea, and white fragrant waterlilies.
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30 June 2022
Salmon River Dock by Emma Ehrenfeld
Saw many northern water snakes of all sizes, and a painted turtle. Also saw a couple of mute swans in the distance with a clutch of little cygnets - couldn't determine how many. Heard and saw many blue jays, and American robins, as well as a great blue heron. Fish species included rock bass, pumpkinseed and bluegill sunfish, yellow perch, and northern pike. Plants seen were cattails, Richardsons pondweed, tape grass, yellow pondlilies, and algae.
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29 June 2022
Lafarge Cement Factory/endspoint by Emma Ehrenfeld
Seen Northern water snakes, a great blue heron, and fish species here included minic shiners, yellow perch, rock bass, largemouth bass, pumpkinseed sunfish, banded killifish, and spottail shiners.
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29 June 2022
Beach Road Shore by Emma Ehrenfeld
Very rocky ground - waves very strong due to wind off the bay. Fish included logperch, walleye, yellow perch, and spotfin and spottail shiners.
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29 June 2022
Zwicks Park by Emma Ehrenfeld
An osprey nest was built on a platform near the water and a chick was calling for its mother the whole time I was there. I also had the opportunity to witness the mother search for, dive at and catch what appeared to be a catfish, and shake her wings off mid-flight before delivering her catch to the nest. Other birds included American robins and red-winged blackbirds. Water striders, leeches, and dragonfly larvae were found here. Fish species included yellow perch, longnose gar, largemouth bass, and golden shiners. There was very dense vegetation in the water, with species found such as Eurasian milfoil, bladderwort, elodea, coontail, tape grass, water nymph, algae, yellow pondlilies, and fragrant white pondlilies.
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28 June 2022
Gordons Point Dock by Emma Ehrenfeld
Dense vegetation along dock including sago, Eurasian milfoil, coontail, elodea, richardsons pondweed, White fragrant pondlilies, and frogbit. Young of year largemouth bass could be spotted swimming near the surface beside the dock, and other fish found here included logperch, pumpkinseed sunfish, round gobies, and yellow perch. Birds seen included a great blue heron, and a pair of mute swans foraging and preening. Leopard frogs were also very common. Found dead grass carp, and dead walleyes, along with a clutch of grackles that seem to have fallen from their nest and succumbed to the elements.
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24 June 2022
St. Regis by Mohawk Council of Akwesasne (MCA)
I saw a great blue heron, and the fish we sampled included rock bass, largemouth bass, brown bullhead, longnose gar, yellow perch, to name a few. Plants included cattails, sago, curly-leaf pondweed, elodea, red algae, richardsons pondweed, and coontail.
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24 June 2022
Marina 200 by Emma Ehrenfeld
Lots of curly leaf pondweed, sago, elodea, coontail. Saw young largemouth bass, a catfish (brown bullhead?) and sunfish swimming around the dock. Also saw freshwater sponge growing on the cement under the dock.
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23 June 2022
St. Lawrence River by Emma Ehrenfeld
Saw some double-crested cormorants, bank swallows, and heard some American crows.
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23 June 2022
Raquette River West by Emma Ehrenfeld
Heard an American robin singing in the trees, and saw lots of bank swallows.
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23 June 2022
Mouth of Raquette River by Emma Ehrenfeld
Very natural area; lots of healthy-looking shorelines with a variety of trees and shrubby lining them. A very thick patch, almost an island, of fragrant white lilypads - looked like a paradise for river turtles. Also saw some Richardsons pondweed. As for birds I saw many bank swallows and some Canada geese on the shore.
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23 June 2022
Raquette River East by Emma Ehrenfeld
Saw bank swallows, double-crested cormorants, a loon, and an osprey.
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23 June 2022
Grasse River West by Emma Ehrenfeld
I spotted common terns, Canada geese, red-winged blackbirds, and also heard an American robin singing.
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23 June 2022
Mouth of Grasse River by Emma Ehrenfeld
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23 June 2022
Grasse River East by Emma Ehrenfeld
The water here was murky brown in colour, but moving. We spotted a mature bald eagle roosting on a rocky outcropping - My phone camera couldn't zoom in enough to get a good photo, unfortunately.
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