[NatureList] Re: Mudpuppy Night Oct 31
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Frederick W. Schueler
Nov 1, 2025, 9:11:52 AM11/1/25
to Eastern Ontario Natural History listserve, Douglas Strick, Payton McIntyre, Clayton Luc, Marceau, Kari
On 10/30/2025 11:41 AM, Frederick W. Schueler wrote:
> On 10/30/2025 11:15 AM, Payton McIntyre wrote:
>
>> Just wondering if tomorrow will be cancelled due to rain or if it’s still on.
>
> I'll be there to at least look at the water, even if it's raining too hard to do much 'puppying.
* so Mudpuppy Night was conducted with an umbrella for the first time
(19h58-20h25, 3°C, light rain, force 3-4 wind - RVCA flow data not
online now, and I forgot to bring a thermometer for water temperature).
After a generously rainy day, clear water was coming over all three
spillways, but the disintegration of the masses of algae on the flats
made the water below the dam opaquely murky, and made it was hard to see
anything in more than 20 cm of water. All species except Gyrinid Beetles
were sparsely represented (many of both the usual large and many of a
small species of Gyrinidae): one big Crayfish at the Vantage Point, a
small dead Green Frog there, and one Green Frog juvenile alive on the
flats, a medium-size juvenile Bull Frog on the flats, and a medium-large
Mudpuppy coming up onto the flats, about a metre above the dropoff.
fred.
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---------Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad ------------
Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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> On 10/30/2025 11:15 AM, Payton McIntyre wrote:
>
>> Just wondering if tomorrow will be cancelled due to rain or if it’s still on.
>
> I'll be there to at least look at the water, even if it's raining too hard to do much 'puppying.
* so Mudpuppy Night was conducted with an umbrella for the first time
(19h58-20h25, 3°C, light rain, force 3-4 wind - RVCA flow data not
online now, and I forgot to bring a thermometer for water temperature).
After a generously rainy day, clear water was coming over all three
spillways, but the disintegration of the masses of algae on the flats
made the water below the dam opaquely murky, and made it was hard to see
anything in more than 20 cm of water. All species except Gyrinid Beetles
were sparsely represented (many of both the usual large and many of a
small species of Gyrinidae): one big Crayfish at the Vantage Point, a
small dead Green Frog there, and one Green Frog juvenile alive on the
flats, a medium-size juvenile Bull Frog on the flats, and a medium-large
Mudpuppy coming up onto the flats, about a metre above the dropoff.
fred.
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---------Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad ------------
Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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