High water and low expectations
Early and mid-summer is a quiet time for most birds, animals and insects, as they are usually occupied with raising new generations rather than migrating, mating, nesting, hatching, birthing and other spring activities. Of course, winter, spring and, so far, summer have all had weather conditions that are not very close to normal, but most of the creatures are managing OK. I am not managing the abnormal conditions too well, but I am just a small cog in the big scheme of things.The high lake water levels seem to be as long lasting as I can remember in my quite a few years here. I guess high water is better than the low water levels that Powderhorn sometimes has, but it does present a few problems to some creatures. The turtles now have very few, sandy, rocky or muddy areas to bask, which is what they love to do in nice weather. I think the turtle population, both in numbers and species, is doing fine. But without available basking areas, such as the south side of the island, I don’t see nearly as many as usual. An aside: I did see a Powderhorn family releasing five painted and one snapping turtle (all young they had rescued and helped out) into the lake in late June.
The high water may also be the reason the park has way fewer Great Egrets than in most years. I see Egrets fly over the lake fairly often but they usually just keep going. The “regular” Great Blue Heron is, I think, almost always on the lake but out of sight a lot of the time. A second Great Blue Heron sometimes shows up. The last time I saw that, in mid-July, the “regular” was chasing him or her away.
I believe there were three Black-crowned Night Herons on the lake for a while. I know there is still one, but they are “Night” Herons and could all still be there. By this time of year, some of the far-north nesting shorebirds, such as the Spotted Sandpiper, are already going south and visit Powderhorn on their way. Since there is not much normal shore, I don’t think there will be many shorebirds, or they will be very hard to see. One thing you can see better in the high water is the schools of small catfish or bullheads that swim up over the light colored concrete retaining walls and sidewalks when the concrete is underwater.
The rain, heat, humidity and high water are producing lots of plant growth around the shoreline, along with all kinds of colors of flowers.
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