Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Written by  Marlen K. Waaijer
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Instead of removing invasive species, I went out with the RWA to do some seining with Mickey Maxwell Cohen, the naturalist of the American Littoral Society. Jeanne Dupont, and her little band of teachers and students, including her children and some of her neighbor's children were already suiting up as I arrived.

All the kids got turns to go out and haul in a net. Fun was had by all, and the weather was just perfect. No special species, mostly killy fish, some silversides, and a bunch of schrimp. Snails were present as well. Teiler did see a blue fish, but it got away.

I put on a suit myself, so I could go out there and give some support. The oyster got counted in between, amazingly they had grown a lot, some of them were bigger that 4 cm. The grey heron and the marsh harrier were still busy looking for food.