Tuesday 7 April 2009

Dead prey?

One step too far

Taking in the beauty of it all

Nanoose Creek estuary

Today was one of those days when you just feel good about being out in nature, the sun was shining the dicky birds were singing everybody had a smile. We went into the estuary to check our fish pipe in the Ducks Unlimited pond. The water levels were too high to do the placement of the pipe so we just laid the pipe in the pond and dropped the steel post over the top to hold it down. This will do until levels drop to allow the safe wading out to drive a new post and attach the end of the pipe about 2 feet off the bottom. This will allow the fish to find their own way out into Nanoose Creeks estuary.

Afterwards we walked down through the estuary and along the tide line to Bonnel Creek. Visiting the estuary at this time we try to be very careful as the Geese and Ducks are nesting along with all the other dicky birds. We came across a dead vole (?) - we were not sure what it was but was interesting to see the cycle of life from nesting birds bringing new life to the estuary and the death of a small animal due to probably falling prey to one of the many predator visiting at this time of year, probably a Owl or Hawk.