Qu'Appelle River

Fresh appearance water channel 98% ice free some edge build at .5 cm.
Muskrat interested as tap hole into test hole. Pic att.
Pleasant surprise Secci took to bottom (been awhile).
16 Common Goldeneye bay/channel ducks floating. 10 brown winter color female with 6 black/white makes. Escaping pic att.
Irony pic of valley ski hill near opening date with late Fall ‘feel’. Channel iced up ~15 days prior.

Clear water at depth with bottom visible. Small amounts of lime green granular accumulation floating randomly against channel/river bank.
Less garbage than earlier in year.

Mallard

Kingfisher

Channel showing suspended green particles.

Jumping fish and birds present. Channel site had silt noted in water flow.

Mallard pair again near sampling site, yellow warbler. Flowering almond bushes producing buds plus flowers.

Strong current with still shore water high turbidity. (upstream) PFRA dam water into channel has some tannin color. At this sampling no fingerling fish noticed in dam quiet back water.

River flow rate* Oct. 21-22nd. Fresh water smell, noted PFRA dam water was clear(clean) as fish seen swimming on bottom lower E. channel side.
River was noted as same elevation with clean shoreline. One muskrat on surface exercising.

*will check Lake Diefenbaker for upstream water release as significant rainfall in area after cleanliness noted.

Previous day moderate top algae greening appearing in downflow.