We had a wonderful day. The weather was hot with a slight breeze. Temperatures started at 8C in the early morning, to 15C at 10 am and probably got into the 20's by afternoon (didn't check).
The river is still high so we did not get to do any river insect searching this year like we did last year.
The areas covered included:
Trails west of the confluence of the Buck and UBR (3 blitzers)
Trails east of the confluence of the Buck and UBR (4 blitzers)
Old Pines Nature Trail at the ski trails (3 blitzers)
The Duck Pond (6 adult and 5 youth blitzers)
Birding (3 blitzers) included Westgarde's pond, Duck Pond, Keegstra's field, Morice River Road, Finning ponds and incidentals as we were botanizing and catching insects in the other places (above).
Blitzers were:
M. Zagwyn (Photo birder)
A.M. Hak (The Houston Today writer)
C. Verbeek (Naturalist)
D. Verbeek (Avid Birder)
M. Coulsen (Experienced Birder)
S. Haussler (Forest ...more ↓
We had a wonderful day. The weather was hot with a slight breeze. Temperatures started at 8C in the early morning, to 15C at 10 am and probably got into the 20's by afternoon (didn't check).
The river is still high so we did not get to do any river insect searching this year like we did last year.
The areas covered included:
Trails west of the confluence of the Buck and UBR (3 blitzers)
Trails east of the confluence of the Buck and UBR (4 blitzers)
Old Pines Nature Trail at the ski trails (3 blitzers)
The Duck Pond (6 adult and 5 youth blitzers)
Birding (3 blitzers) included Westgarde's pond, Duck Pond, Keegstra's field, Morice River Road, Finning ponds and incidentals as we were botanizing and catching insects in the other places (above).
Blitzers were:
M. Zagwyn (Photo birder)
A.M. Hak (The Houston Today writer)
C. Verbeek (Naturalist)
D. Verbeek (Avid Birder)
M. Coulsen (Experienced Birder)
S. Haussler (Forest Ecologist)
A. Hetherington (Habitat Conservation expert)
K. Ismond (Amateur Naturalist)
R. Verbeek (Junior Naturalist)
A. Lieuwen (Junior Naturalist)
A. Wanyama (Neighbor kid who rode by on his bike with his friends at the duck pond and stopped to do some pond dipping ;-)
A. Wanyama (see above)
D. Meints (see above)
It should also be noted that we cheated a bit on time. Some of the records are from a pre-blitz walk with M. & E. Coulson (expert naturalist) and from an "animal drive" done later in the evening on Saturday to look for moose and bears (they saw 5 bears including several cubs and a baby moose that looked like it had just been born that morning!). Technically the records are from 1:00 pm on Friday until 9:00 pm on Saturday (32 hours).
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