I saw a few dead shoots of Hookeria lucens. I thought they might have parasitized, but didn't find anything conclusive. Perhaps a closer look with a microscope will reveal something
Overcast, with light rain in the afternoon. Light winds.
When I checked the radar late this morning and saw rain moving closer from the south, I decided to put off lunch and get out before the rain arrived.
I stopped at Sandy Beach and accidentally locked myself out of my car. Fortunately Connor was about to take his lunch, so he was able to bring the spare key to unlock the doors.
In the meantime I walked on the beach for a bit.
Gull activity had caught my attention. It appeerad they were finding food on the shoreline, but it wasn’t obvious what. As best I could tell they were picking things off the surface. However, it was not something with much bulk.
When I got down to the water and looked, I could see what looked like the gurry stuff that sometimes comes ashore in the channel. Unless the currents were extra strong, that seemed unlikely. I wonder if there had been a test set earlier and what they were finding remains from that.
The channel had some gulls, but none unusual.
I revisited the Metzgeria I had photographed yesterday. Looking closer today, I’m pretty sure it is infected by a fungus. I’ll probably need to take some photos through a microscope to have any hope of an ID.
After spending much time at Moller Park earlier in the winter, the crane seems to have shifted to hanging out on a few different lawns along the margin of Swan Lake
The Sandhill Crane was in a yard next to Swan Lake.
My iNaturalist Observations for Today
