Bio Lab Foxcroft Farms Week 3

This week was our last week in the Swamp and as we conducted our last 15 minutes of silence I began to appreciate the changes that have occurred in the short time we have trekked into the swamp. The bird songs I have familiarized myself with during these past 2 weeks were joined by the calls of new species enjoying the warmer weather. The frog from the first lab period was unfortunately never seen again, but during our moment of silence, some geese flew overhead. We eagerly attempted to capture some images but they were too far away for clear photographs, fortunately, we met some more near the end of our day. After our moment of silence, we endeavored to discover more biodiversity by using a stick to move around the mud and detritus at the bottom of the creak and a using net to capture anything that moved. Although this method did result in the acquisition of some new insect samples we did not meet the same level of success as the week prior. As such we decided to move to the Biocube location of the other swamp group with the hopes of discovering more swamp inhabitants.

Unfortunately, although we were able to uncover some new species of insects and plants we were not able to uncover the same variety of species the other group did. Which might have been the result of us not being able to discover the exact location of their Biocube. Downtrodden, we decided to move back to our original location for one final goodbye before heading back to the main property. Surprisingly, during our time there we saw a group of geese in the swamp swimming towards us! Everyone immediately stilled and took as many photos as was possible before we had to head back, the swamp having given us one final goodbye.

Posted on April 29, 2019 04:20 AM by lrhernandez