Willow Creek : Willow creek drain s into Rondeau Bay Shrewsbury Ont Can
Chatham Kent, Ontario, Canada
- Observed on: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 13:15:00 -0400
- Testers Rick Sowinski and Maggie Jones
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Water Rangers and Freshwater Alliance : Lake Erie Guardians - Lat: 42.2953704
- Lng: -81.9335246
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We met a couple young girls in kayaks. We shared conversations and they helped us with our observation adding some details for us . They said they spotted turtles,3 heron s ,and a blackbird which later swam in towards us and was fishing (it was a Comorant) It would dive and pop up in another spot or dive and leave its bottom up above water also. Later it flew onto a branch in the water and spread it s wing s in the sun. There was a big Blue dragon fly and a bunch of small black and grey dragon flies. We also saw minnows (cormorant possibly eating them and vegetation) There were small white butterflies (like the cabbage moths in our garden).
The day was sunny and 21*C slight breeze. There was natural debris on water and alittle floating algae. The 2 girls we met in kayak s but not evidence of fishing .There was alittle algae on water small matts (Cyanobacteria)
The water was slow but high .
Water colour was brown.
Water clarity was 30 com visibility looking in,but with Secchi Disk read at 67 cm. The water depth was 1 metre mark when secchi depth tape.
There was no odours.
** We observed on 2 different test applications DISSOLVED OXYGEN a reading of 1.