On Thanksgiving day I'll be thankful for many things including the wonderful invertebrates that are always at the drift fence--hot, cold, dry, or wet they are always there to keep things interesting. We get a ton of these very large crickets and are now getting a lot of what I'll naively just call wooly bears. Looks like our crazy summer weather should come to an end tomorrow and we'll get back to normal temperatures and some rain. Hopefully that will mean some amphibian action for Saturday. Rain may even come tonight so one of our dutiful bay runners (not me) got to work at the crack of dawn today to process the salamanders that left the bay the other day to make sure they got released before the next rain. Keeping the Rainbow Bay fence going is quite the commitment--no holidays missed in 30 years!
Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
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