Observation #6

Site name: Flat Creek
Date: May 22, 2008
Time: 7:07 pm
Temp: 42
Weather: Sprinkling rain, foggy skies and cloudy, cold
Wind: Slight breeze very cold
Soil: very moist

Today I can actually see a mammal, an otter that is swimming along the bank. The otter is camouflaged with the water, and it was difficult for me to see it at first but then i was able to encounter it. The river still is very muddy and very high. I then felt the temperature of the water to see how cold it was and it felt about a temperature of about 40 degrees or even colder. I noticed the berry thickets were beginning to become very green and are a good source of energy to those biotic organisms that feed off of it for energy. Nearby I noticed some geese creeping towards me. They both resemble an adaption of mimicry so I am not able to tell the difference between the two. One of them was feeding on the grasses and the other was standing back alert. They also might have been competing for the same food source (inter specific). Every plant life is growing very efficiently due to the rain amounts we have been receiving. I can also hear more bird noises, but can not figure out what kinds, because I can not see them.