Emiquon Bio Blitz

Saturday October 11 was the Emiquon Bio Blitz. In the morning, I went out in a canoe with a biologist looking for water fowl (and struggling to paddle the canoe! good thing the water was pretty calm that morning!), and then pulled on some high water waders and went out searching for invertebrates living in Thompson Lake. In the afternoon, after a wonderful lunch of burgers grilled at the UIS field station, I attended workshops looking at the invertebrates under microscopes and identifying prairie plants, which was a challenge after the blooms have dried up and the seeds have blown away.


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A pair of juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons flew over:

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Hundreds of waterfowl flushed:

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Hundreds of Tree Swallows swarming in and out of the few trees growing along the former agricultural canals:

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A view down the canal, tiny white specs are egrets roosting in the trees:

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A beaver swimming to his den along the side of the canal:

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A Common Yellowthroat peeking out from the corn growing along Prairie Road:

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View from Prairie Road:

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Canton power plant off in the distance.

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A cave in the bluff along Clark road.

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