For our Trout in the Classroom crew, the start of Spring means a chance to get back into the water! It's not time to get the Teal out on Cayuga Lake, but classes are signing up for "Stream Ecology" studies, and that means we get to go out and collect samples from local streams to take into the schools!
I got the honor of collecting our first macroinvertebrate sample of 2023 at Lower Enfield Creek on the very first day or spring this year. Water temperature a balmy.... 42 degrees!
Students at EA Clune Montessori School got to investigate this stream sample and found an incredible diversity of insect larvae and other invertebrates, along with a salamander, two black nosed dace and a fantail darter. Their consensus? This is a healthy stream, and a suitable habitat for growing trout!
Stay tuned for more posts from classes, and from Katie and Astrid who will soon be joining me in waders out here. And, not to worry- all creatures were returned safely to their chilly but healthy home in Enfield Creek at the end of the day!
Bill F.
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