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On Feburary 2, 2019, my Science 100 Class and I headed over tot he Arcata Marsh and Sanctuary to conduct our baseline project on willows and avocets. We had all met up at approximately 10:00 AM in Founders Hall 118 and had gone over a few slides on the project and marsh itself. Our learning objective was to document the diversity at the setting, track the changing morphologies of willows, learn the fundamental data collecting skills, manage and analyze the data and to observe/create the baseline of this long-term project.

This week was our first week of observation where we went and tagged our willow trees. We got at the Marsh at about 12:15 PM. The Marsh was located at 569 S G St Arcata, CA. It took us about 10 minutes to commute here via school buses from our library circle. Our plan at the time was to go look at the avocet site and observe for about an hour. The turnout of this part was not a success because tides were high and there were no avocets to be seen and pointed out directly. Though we didn't see avocets we saw crows, humming birds, a black feebie and an American Robin.

At 1:22 PM, we arrived to the Oxidation Pond and so far the skies were getting cloudier. The tides were high and we were able to about 100 avocets from afar flying with a cluster of miscellaneous birds (the birds were very far from us and we had used a very high power telescope to look at the pile of birds-- the avocets were confirmed by some Biology professors).

At 1:32 PM, we broke up into our BOG groups and headed over to our willows. We first observed the characteristics of a willow tree, and then went to tag ours. Our willow tree is K1 and we had named it Willow Smith. Our first branch that we will be continuously taking pictures from is tagged next to the actual K1 tag, and the second branch is marked with the zebra-like tape. The canopy picture will be taken from the bottom where the green tape is located and the overview picture will be at a 60 degree to the left of the tree in front a pencil in which we marked into the ground. Our tree is located right next to Klopp Lake. The tree itself has no leaves, buds, flowers, fruit or anything in general besides its branches and trunk.