Sparrow

After late Breakfast, paddled back to the Creek and sat awhile at the Swath Rip Rap....Female Merganser flyby, silent and fast, going downstream....Ouzel flyby too, chattering...Grey Squirrel, then Ground Squirrel, crossed the Twin Fallen Cedars, and across the Creek took pic of Sparrow, which looks to be Chipping Sparrow, maybe first sighting, have to check...sunny cloudy hazy warm, later at lunch blueblue with small puff clouds....at Lunch: Two Does and Two Fawns, and one Buck at Ozone Beach....Sandpipers, Flicker, Ravens, Robins, Song Sparrows, Female Blackbird about...oh...have pic of Blackbird puffed up calling..brb...pic up...checked: Chipping Sparrow sighted:

http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2007/09/three-birds.html

Oil Spill: I was wondering how the plankton is doing, and I think this site has something on it, but so much else, that it will take some study--great illustrations:

http://marinebio.org/blog/

and another, second site, with plankton mention:

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Currently, Mote is seeking funds that will allow us to conduct certain key baseline assessments and archive samples for future analysis. Without this information, the impacts of the oil spill cannot be measured. To help ensure that data on the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cannot be disputed for lack of baseline samples — as was the case in the Exxon Valdez spill — we are working to sample, analyze and archive samples of:

• Pigments: This will identify phytoplankton present in the Gulf. Phytoplankton form the basis of the food web and feed the entire ecosystem.

http://www.mote.org/index.php?src=directory&view=magazine&srctype=detail&refno=1078

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the Lady with a Spear works thereabout...very cool site...