Visitors 40
Modified 11-Jul-25
Created 11-Jul-25
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The first phase of Hilary Bayer’s summer research project comes to an end: we dismantle a dozen insect traps near Lower and Middle Searsville. Many hands make light work. Jerry Hearn helps Hilary; I pitch in. After they come down, it is hard to tell the traps were ever there. Unlike similar trail tents, these insect traps have no ground sheet, and nobody sleeps there. So the vegetation is basically undisturbed.
As we walk between sites, birds appear. Great Blue Heron spends a lazy afternoon standing in the shallows. Acorn Woodpecker sips seeping water. Green Heron erupts suddenly from below the dam, retreating to nearby willows while we pass – twice, as we go across and as we come back. Insect predators: a dragonfly in the grass, a spider taking advantage of the insect trap. A small flower blooms.
A lovely temperate early afternoon – after we wait out the morning’s mosquito abatement.
As we walk between sites, birds appear. Great Blue Heron spends a lazy afternoon standing in the shallows. Acorn Woodpecker sips seeping water. Green Heron erupts suddenly from below the dam, retreating to nearby willows while we pass – twice, as we go across and as we come back. Insect predators: a dragonfly in the grass, a spider taking advantage of the insect trap. A small flower blooms.
A lovely temperate early afternoon – after we wait out the morning’s mosquito abatement.
Dan Quinn