Date: 3/2/2019 Time: 1:45 PM Location: Arcata Marsh

This is mine and Ashley's third time to the marsh, it is roughly 52 degrees and it is 1:40 PM as we arrive at the parking lot. We took some pictures on the way to our tree of some different plants for Inaturalist, one of them being a cattail. Once we got to the tree I went into the creek and took the pictures I needed of the branches, canopy, etc… After that we recorded the data. Our Willow is starting to slowly grow some more leaves as the weeks go on. It is slightly cloudy and windy. After we were done with collecting the data of the willow tree we drove over to Jacoby Creek to look for Avocets.
As we arrived we could see that is was low tide as we got to the corner we could see two separate flocks of these birds, Avocets. We sat there for 15 minutes looking at them to see if they were roosting, eating, or if they had any color on them. Majority of them were eating by swiping their beaks back and forth. There was a total of 19 Avocets that we counted while sitting there, some of them even had a cinnamon neck coloring.
After sitting there for 15 minutes we walked back to the car taking pictures of some of the plants along the pathway. I found a snake but wasn’t quick enough to take a picture. I also saw a bunch of different ducks sitting the center of one of the ponds. After gathering the last few pictures we went back to the car and drove back to campus.

Publicado el abril 22, 2019 06:13 TARDE por shelbycabral