Ottawa River

June 30/24
Peter, Jennifer, and Deborah
- A few recreational/fishing boats out this weekend
- Wildlife - map turtles, 2 geese, swallows (species unsure).

Investigators: Jennifer, Peter, Deb and Virginia.
- Lots of pollen in the water yesterday (mostly gone this morning)
- One other fishing boat on the water

Note: Using new pH strips, results seem different than in previous years. (New pH strips pH = 7.8; hardness and alkalinity in ok range.)
(Results using old pH strips: pH - 7.0,
Wildlife - 4 map turtles, some gulls, and spotted sandpiper.

Investigators: Peter and Jennifer
Heavy Fog on opposite side of the river.
One other (fishing) boat
- lots of birds (belted kingfisher, ducks)

Investigators: Peter, Jennifer, Deborah, Virginia.
Windy morning (no other boats on the river)
One exciting bird observation: Yellowlegs (could not identify if it was lesser or greater).

Investigators, Peter, Jennifer, Virginia and Deborah.
Light wind.
- 2 fishing boats out.
- We observed several bird species (2 common terns, blue heron, eastern kingbird, waxwing) as well as 2 common map turtles.

Investigators: Peter and Jennifer
Current conditions: overcast, light rain started after we finished water testing.
(no boats out at the time).
But about an hour later the sun came back out and there were some recreational boats out on the river at that time.
(recorded some Eurasian water milfoil that had washed up on shore when we returned to shore (Baie Haughton).

Water testing May 27,23.
Investigators: Peter, Jennifer, Deb, Virginia
Water still a little cloudy likely from high waters/flooding in April and May. (Secchi depth is smaller, turbidity is higher)
Wildlife: spotted sandpiper, map turtles
(No other activity or boats on the water this morning).

Sept 24, 22.
Investigators: Peter, Jennifer, Virginia, Deborah
- water level is up slightly
- Human activity: 1 sailboat, 2 kayaks
- Wildlife: water snake (swimming), garter snake (swimming - never seen garter snake swimming before - see photo)
- Map turtles (in Baie Haughton) counted at least 20 all basking in the sun on the rocks and on the logs (see photo).
- Great blue heron, and a belted kingfisher, and large flock of geese.

Aug 27, 2022
South of Flag Island (Observers: Peter, Jennifer and Deborah)
Human activity: fishing
Wildlife: Spotted sandpiper, Map turtle, Bald Eagle (seen flying above in circles in the distance), Canada Geese

July 31st/22. Observers: Peter, Jennifer, Deborah
Some recreational boating some kayakers, and boat (lots of boat activity yesterday)
Secchi depth (average of 3 people taking measurement).
Wildlife: map turtle, cormorants, song sparrow.
One piece of garbage removed from the river (empty container of worms for fishing).