Tuesday 24th March 2009

Cold and wet

Today everyone met in front of the Christian school on Morello road to access the forest through Lussiers gravel pit. We went up to Swan Lake and found what we think are the same pair of Geese preparing their nesting site as they have done for the past few years . A Heron took flight from further up the lake and everyone thought they heard Roy but was just the Heron ( Roy is away in Maui).

The forest is starting to come back to life with the Skunk Cabbage starting to bloom and lots of dickie birds around. We walked down the trail and checked our counting fence which needed the mesh cleaning of debris; no fish yet its a little cold so far for them to be moving. After we went and walked up the logging road 142 to find our old trail down to the lake. Though we had not used the trail for some years it was not hard to follow down to the lake.

All throughout the forest water was flowing in flood channels and the closer to the lake we got we observed some Beaver activity from their foraging of wood for food. As we left Craig took a short swim in one of the channels, he slipped off the log and went in up to his waist with one leg, I was too slow to get his picture due to laughing though I did get a pic of him emptying his boots, I did not get his head in the pic as Craig is camera shy. Afterwards we walked back down the road to our foot bridge and went for coffee and tea.