Observations
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1 November 2021
Nancy Dobson
There is ice on the lake, so we couldn’t go out in the canoe. We broke through the ice at a dock and did the few tests…no Secchi. The water is super clear, no problem seeing the bottom, likely about three feet where we were. About 2” of snow last week.
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29 May 2021
Nancy Dobson
Two redneck grebes; one cormorant; one bald eagle; one turkey vulture; two small unidentified shore birds;four western painted turtles; numerous Canada geese around the lake. The photos are turtles today, and our snowfall one week ago today!
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19 April 2021
Nancy Dobson
Loch Leven in Cypress Hills is still ice covered, so our first observation will likely be in May...the photos were taken on April 17 and 18.
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25 October 2020
Nancy Dobson
Water sampling at Loch Leven is done for the year! Beautiful day to snowshoe, however!! See you in the spring...stay well everyone!
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28 September 2020
Nancy Dobson
Water is MUCH clearer...no waterfowl or turtles seen today. Wind got up a bit, so was hard to get the water depth. Beautiful fall colours showing up in Cypress and the turkey vultures are still here, as you can see in the picture! Hopefully, we can do one more test at the end of October🤞🙃...
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31 August 2020
Nancy Dobson
Once again there are a lot of weeds, so it was difficult to find the real depth. Beautiful sunny day, after a very windy day yesterday . We saw four turtles, one that was “shedding”, which we’ve never seen before.
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26 July 2020
Nancy Dobson
We could not get a depth due to weeds. Beautiful clear day, no wind. Saw a bat flying, kingfishers, mallards, pintails, red-neck grebe, cormorants, turtle and a small shorebird.
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28 June 2020
Nancy Dobson
There were a lot of weeds, so it was difficult to get the disc to the bottom. We saw mallard adults and ducklings, two cormorants, 4 turtles, a pelican.
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1 June 2020
Nancy Dobson
The reason for not doing our tests on May 31 was it was SO windy!!The water today was very clear. We could not see the bottom where we were testing, but the disc stopped going down at 3 meters. The only wildlife we saw were Canada geese...many adults and four goslings. We had seen a grebe a few days ago, sitting on a nest.
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25 October 2019
Nancy Dobson
The lake water has become quite green, but not a lot of large weed beds on the surface like some years. We saw redneck grebes, mallards,cormorants, painted turtle, leopard frog, pelicans. We checked the invasive species tube and it was clean. I forgot to measure the depth of the water, but it should be about the same as last time.
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25 October 2019
Nancy Dobson
It was very windy (43km), so was difficult to keep the canoe in one place long enough to get the water depth. Other than the secchi test, we did all other tests from shore. There had been about 6” of snow on Tuesday or Wednesday. The water was VERY clear. No wildlife observed.
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25 September 2019
Nancy Dobson
The water was clearer than previously...not as much green colour. Today was sun-cloud mix and had been similar to that for several days. While on the water, we saw no wildlife, but when leaving the lake we saw a flock of mallards near the small beach.
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