tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81928664542540086832024-03-18T19:45:18.957-07:00Little Swamp CreekThe record of a suburban streamStream keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794438813051259822noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192866454254008683.post-21347222610221520472015-02-07T10:30:00.000-08:002015-02-07T11:46:31.046-08:00The Size of the Swamp Creek Watershed May Surprise You<br />
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Thanks to a glorious break in this stretch of otherwise very rainy weather, Eric and I were able to get outside late yesterday afternoon and take a quick stroll through Wallace Swamp Creek park. You can see here the huge amount of water that we witnessed flowing out of the sediment pond located in the stretch of Swamp Creek that flows through the park. The water has actually carved a secondary exit through the berm to the left of the area where the water is supposed to flow out of the pond. Eric commented that we were actually watching the rainwater that fell on Everett and Lynnwood flowing by. Which reminded me....</div>
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A friend of ours lent Eric this clever and information-packed booklet that she had used in her classroom. It's called "North Creek and Swamp Creek Watershed Guidebook", and it was put out by Snohomish County Public Works some time ago (no date in it anywhere, unfortunately). It is packed with great watershed guidelines and information, but what I couldn't wait to share is this particular page that shows the huge area that makes up the Swamp Creek watershed. (Click on the photo to pop out a larger version in a new page)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of the area in that map drains into Swamp Creek and ends up flowing through Kenmore.</span></div>
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So it should be no surprise that there is flooding in the area around Swamp Creek in Kenmore when we have heavy rainfall. There is a huge urban area that is ultimately draining into Swamp Creek. Flooding is a watershed issue, but unfortunately it's the area furthest downstream that experiences the most dramatic cumulative effects of the combined stormwater runoff coming from upstream. Is it possible to convince (or force) our upstream neighbors to make changes going forward that will lower the amount of runoff that is hammering us down here? Planning for a future watershed forum is in the works, so hopefully a watershed-wide conversation can at least get started. </div>
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Here are some beautiful new informational maps created by Christopher Wright for the <a href="http://snokingwatershedcouncil.org/" target="_blank">Sno-King Watershed Council</a> and shared here courtesy of the Watershed Council (click on the maps to open them in a new page, where you can click on them to zoom in) --</div>
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And here is probably the best map of Little Swamp Creek and its watershed that I have seen, showing its headwaters in two different neighborhoods in the Canyon Park area of Bothell --</div>
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This unusually dry winter has meant that instead of sitting in front of the computer blogging about Little Swamp Creek I've been happily spending that time outside getting rid of blackberry bushes that have been burying some of the plants in the restoration project our neighbor's yard. More about that project another day.</div>
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If you are interested in purchasing native plants for a very good price, you have until February 9th to pre-order plants from the <a href="http://www.kingcd.org/pro_native.htm" target="_blank">King Conservation District Native Bareroot Plant Sale</a>. You can purchase everything from Western Red Cedars to coastal strawberries. You can't purchase just one plant, you have to purchase the bareroot plants or plugs in bundles of 10, and you have to be able to pick up your order at their location in Renton on March 1st. I am excited to add some native ground covers like the coastal strawberries and low Oregon grape to the edges of the replanted native areas along Little Swamp Creek in our yard. And in the project behind our fence we will replace shore pines that were smothered by blackberry canes and cedars that were eaten by deer.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">While I was taking pictures of the skunk cabbage at the edge of the wetland one day last week, a pileated woodpecker noticed me and started making a show of hopping up the trunk of a nearby tree.</span></div>
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Pretty soon all was quiet when the bird flew from the tree and disappeared. But I had that eerie feeling that I was being watched, Sure enough, what I first thought was the pointy stub of a branch on the side of a tree was actually the woodpecker peeking out of a hole. I couldn't believe how lucky I was to stumble across this surprise -<br />
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I beat a hasty retreat because I really didn't want to disturb this bird, especially if it has eggs in that hollow. As I left, the woodpecker flew out of its hole to keep an eye on me.</div>
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I discovered a very surprising fact about pileated woodpeckers on the <a href="http://web4.audubon.org/bird/ivory/pileated.php" target="_blank">National Audobon</a> webpage devoted to them -</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b><i>This species requires late successional stages of forest for habitat, as well as younger forests that have scattered, large, dead trees for food, nesting, and roosting. In younger forests they requires larger areas: 3,904 acres of virgin forest supports 3-6 pairs of Pileated Woodpeckers, while the same area of secondary forest will support just one pair. They also require larger trees with dead centers for roosting, where the bird excavates only the entrance hole.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">According to the second website, predators of the Pileated Woodpecker include the Red-tailed Hawk (a pair of which used to annually lay eggs in a large nest located in a neighboring tree), Barred Owls (which we have been hearing at night recently), weasels, and squirrels, among other animals. These are just the predators mentioned that I <b>know</b> are sharing this same corner of the wetland. </span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">And these woodpeckers are monogamous. As in they remain with the same mate for life, not just for a mating season. That is cool.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Right after my chance discovery, our friend Jeff shared some beautiful pictures of a pileated woodpecker that visited his bird feeder located about two miles upstream from us. Jeff gave me the go-ahead to share his photos here.</span><br />
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<br />Stream keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794438813051259822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192866454254008683.post-39527971379727466382013-03-13T09:46:00.000-07:002013-03-13T10:40:14.403-07:00Hello Spring 2013<br />
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Has it really been almost a year since posting on here? Time to get back in the groove. Suddenly watching the flora and fauna come alive around here has inspired me to get my blogging act together.<br />
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Just as a brief reminder - I started this blog in April of 2009 when Adopt A Stream lead a project to restore a native growth buffer along the banks of Little Swamp Creek where it travels through our yard. Students from the Leaf School at Edmonds Community College helped plant and mulch the buffer here in two phases and helped install large woody debris in a couple places along the stream bank. This work took place between April 2009 and April 2010. Adopt A Stream and The Leaf School also completed an additional restoration project in our neighbor's yard where the stream continues behind our property. The plants in our yard are doing fabulously, with only a few becoming victims to varying degrees of deer and beaver.<br />
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Back to what is happening now. Indian plum is one of the first native plants that we see blooming along Little Swamp Creek, but it's not the only native plant currently blooming here. Skunk Cabbage is also popping up like mad. I hadn't smelled it yet, but I sure saw a lot of blossoms in the wetland behind our fence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little Swamp Creek in Swamp Creek Wetland #3</td></tr>
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A few spots of bright pink Salmonberry blossoms suddenly appeared along the stream,<br />
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which prompted me to share the signs of spring showing up in the native plantings along our little stretch of Little Swamp Creek.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">This chokeberry is one of the first plants that we planted next to the stream. That was back in 2000. It is now sporting a beautiful collection of lichens. </span></div>
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This little nettle start and mushroom were part of the plant community on and around a huge, old tree stump that was left behind after this area was logged years and years ago. There are several old stumps like this in the woods around us.<br />
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I didn't realize how readily the Red-flowering Currants will multiply by establishing a new plant with root growth off of a branch that remains in contact with the ground. Here's an example in our yard -<br />
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I took a picture of this willow next to the stream on one day, and the next day it was chopped down by a beaver. More on the beaver issue in a future blog post...<br />
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Stream keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794438813051259822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192866454254008683.post-86465499891084361222012-04-20T19:24:00.000-07:002012-04-20T19:24:06.269-07:00Little Swamp Creek in April<br />
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Give us some warm, sunny, spring days, and suddenly everything along the stream comes alive! And I breathe a sigh of relief each spring when I see life returning IN Little Swamp Creek itself, too. </div>
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I've seem some larger fish (maybe 4" long) zipping by, but they are too quick for me to identify.<br />
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We are starting to see the trails of caddisfly larvae along the bottom of the stream. Here's a caddisfly larva conveniently perched for a photo (though it's hard to get a clear photo through rippling water...) -<br />
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I recently recalled that 10 years ago we used to see small groups of river eels hanging out in dips in the stream bed, but we haven't seen any recently. Ha! On the day I was taking update photos I happened to spot two eels swimming upstream. Unfortunately all of my photos of those quick critters ended up being blurry, but you get the idea -<br />
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And suddenly our native plants are leafing out like crazy --<br />
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All of the plants haven't leafed out yet, but already you can see what a thick, shady riparian zone we now have along the stream where there used to be some trees and mostly lawn. This side is going into the fourth year since planting in spring of 2009 -<br />
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This shot is looking south into the yard. This area was planted a year later than the other side, so it's beginning its third year. I'll post another shot after the plants have all of their foliage -<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">A variety of trash shows up in the stream, the best being parts of old glass bottles. While I was taking pictures of the caddisfly larva I looked over to see the sun shining on this chunk of green glass in the stream. Nice to see beauty in litter.</span></div>
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Foam keeps collecting on the upstream side of this large woody debris installed in the stream bank. I've read that one cause of foam can be faulty septic systems upstream. Or soap. Since the presence of the foam is pretty constant, I'm thinking it's septic. Yuck.<br />
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A couple weeks ago I was lucky enough to get these shots of one of the neighborhood Red-tailed hawks as it was flying close to our rooftop, possibly checking out our chickens. This is one of the pair that is using the nest in a large cottonwood tree in the wetland behind our fence (the area officially known as Kenmore's Wetland #3). Its mate was soaring much higher up in the sky.<br />
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Back in February I noticed that something had been nibbling on the root of the giant willow tree next to the stream at the front of our yard. I didn't find evidence on any other trees in our yard.</div>
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This is a collage of the process I witnessed of a Stellar's Jay folding up a long strand of old onion or leek leaf that it scavenged from our vegetable garden -<br />
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A funny thing I noticed when putting together this collage is that the jay didn't only snag the plant matter for its nest. It is also is holding onto a plastic plant marker in the first two photos. It must have grabbed that with a claw at the same time it flew off with the onion bit in its beak!</div>
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I spent a little time down at the Kenmore heron rookery in mid-February watching, listening (quite spellbound by the crazy noises being made) and taking pictures. It appeared that the heron were in the midst of fixing up nests, showing off to potential mates and being very territorial. I regret that I didn't make a sound recording while I was there, because in the times that I have been back there since I have not witnessed the same cacophony. <br />
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<br /></div>Stream keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794438813051259822noreply@blogger.com0Kenmore, WA 98028, USA47.759377734103019 -122.2413110733032247.75670923410302 -122.24624657330322 47.762046234103018 -122.23637557330322tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192866454254008683.post-88272470981785102112012-02-18T10:48:00.000-08:002012-02-18T10:48:26.986-08:00Looking For Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Indian Plum is the first deciduous shrub to show signs of life in our yard after winter, and here is one that is getting close to blooming already. This is one of the things that I anxiously look for in February as a sign that spring WILL be coming. </div>
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The heron return to the rookery in Kenmore every year around the first week of February. The rookery was definitely FULL Friday morning. In the near future I'll post more pictures from my trip there.</div>
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A red-tailed hawk returns to the same nest in the cottonwood tree behind our fence every February. There it was peaking out of the nest Friday afternoon.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">So I have now seen all of the early signs of spring that I watch for along Little Swamp Creek. Here are some other </span>things we've seen along the stream in the last month or so -</div>
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Some of my first photos of the year of the red-tailed hawk in the tree across the field from us -<br />
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I could tell that the hawk had returned because of the fussing of crows. Speaking of crows, I have noticed that the huge flocks of crows that would stop for a while in our neighborhood as they pass through at dusk all winter long are no longer showing up. That also seems to happen every February. <br />
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</div><div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was certainly predictable. A development project with a stream running through it is cleared of at least a couple acres of trees. That area is essentially left as bare dirt just in time for the rainy season. Think it's going to have a negative impact on the stream? I think at this point that an elementary school student would correctly predict "Yes!", but how about the adults in charge? </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The West Creek Village project on the west side of 80th here in Kenmore (<a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=1TVYearVorp_ivNBTDPAGODvEyTY5ThIXL6rf6HaGCtBcGEzrvbzlOlc9tsrW" style="text-align: center;">Click here</a> to view the West Creek Village plat map) has been in the system for several years. For the last couple of years the property was owned by a bank, until it was sold this summer. We realized something was actually happening with the property only when big equipment suddenly started working there. Hundreds of loads of dirt were stockpiled in a HUGE pile on the lot (see my 10/23/2011 post about that <a href="http://www.littleswampcreek.com/2011/10/upstream-development.html">here</a>) . We were told that they were stockpiling the dirt to use when work started in the spring. But just in time for the salmon spawning/rainy season, they decided to keep working this fall instead. <br />
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This is what the stretch of stream in our yard looked like all afternoon yesterday, January 3rd, despite the fact that it hadn't rained all day -<br />
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Both the lack of rain and the light color of the turbidity pointed to something wrong upstream. Here's what the stream looked like immediately north of the construction -<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hmmmm. Clear. The contact at the city of Kenmore, who for the record is always very polite and helpful, suggested that the turbidity had something to do with the new stormwater retention tank on site and told me that he would talk to them about moving the outflow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Worse. It was rather hard to miss. Yes, it had been raining hard today, but as I just mentioned, turbidity due only to heavy rainfall is darker than this. Believe me, you get good at reading the stream when you see it every day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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A look into the project, as viewed from the street -<br />
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And a shot of the stream in our yard later in the afternoon -<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There it is, an unfortunate day in the life of an abused suburban stream. It would sure make a lot of sense to require methods of Low Impact Development (LID) to be used on projects so close to a stream like this project is. Until then, we will continue to contact the city, file reports with the state Department of Ecology, and record events here for all to see. Hopefully someday enough people will become aware of the impact that development is having on their watersheds that there will be a wholesale shift to Low Impact Development. If you would like to learn more about LID, here is a website with lots of links - <a href="http://www.epa.gov/owow/NPS/lid/">epa.gov/owow/NPS/lid/</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh, and to add insult to injury, here's a blurry picture of some litter that floated by as I was taking a picture of the stream in our yard later this afternoon -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div>Stream keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794438813051259822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192866454254008683.post-66988876580132604202011-11-15T11:00:00.000-08:002011-11-15T11:00:37.724-08:00Come See High School Students Report on the Health of Our WatershedSorry for the late notice, but please consider attending tomorrow night's meeting of the Sno-King Watershed Council. The evening will include a very impressive presentation by area high school students called "The Watershed Report". Read on for more information --<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday, November 16, 7 pm</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Northwest Stream Center</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">700 – 128 St SE, Everett 98208</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Featuring:</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b><i>The Watershed Report – </i></b>Students will present a report on watershed health, produced by high school students and the Friends of the Cedar River Watershed. Through the Watershed Report, students become local experts on watershed issues and promote sustainability in local cities, schools and organizations. <a href="http://www.cedarriver.org/programs/watershed-report" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">www.cedarriver.org/programs/<wbr></wbr>watershed-report</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clean Water and Green Infrastructure – </span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kerri Cechovic of the Washington Environmental Council will tell you about current opportunities for you to protect your local watershed. <a href="http://wecprotects.org/issues-campaigns/clean-water-green-infrastructure" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">http://wecprotects.org/issues-<wbr></wbr>campaigns/clean-water-green-<wbr></wbr>infrastructure</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Adopt-A-Stream Foundation <a href="http://www.streamkeeper.org/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">www.streamkeeper.org</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friends of the Cedar River Watershed <a href="http://www.cedarriver.org/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.cedarriver.org/</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sno-King Watershed Council <a href="http://www.snokingwatershedcouncil.org/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.<wbr></wbr>snokingwatershedcouncil.org/</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is a loooong overdue update of how the planting in the stream buffer behind our fence is doing. Our friends at Adopt-A-Stream gave us some biodegradable surveying tape to mark the plants so they show up a little better in photos. I marked everything I could find that is still alive, so here you go ---</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These next three shots are basically a panorama, starting with looking south across the large area next to the stream and ending up looking west toward the stream, which you can't see, but it is on the other side of the group of trees in the middle of the third shot -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The reed canary grass is obviously still here, and the plan for our neighbor to mow between the beds to keep it down didn't pan out, mostly because it is so sloppy wet in this area. Eric went back there with a string trimmer periodically, and I pulled grass runners out of the beds this fall.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Here's an example of what these beds started out looking like a year ago -<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And speaking of which, I have a bunch of pictures to share of how amazing the stream-side restoration in our yard looks now. I will share those in a separate post. Soon! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have been intending for a long time to do an update on the growth of the stream-side restoration projects in both our yard and the yard behind us. As I was taking pictures outside yesterday to do so, I ran into this fella - </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Whereas on Monday this guy caught my eye out of the kitchen window - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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I continue to feel that it is amazing to live in a place where there are deer running around. And I'm much happier to see the deer this year since we were quite successful in keeping them out of our vegetable garden, with a little extra fencing.Stream keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794438813051259822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192866454254008683.post-78547374678896017972011-10-23T15:55:00.000-07:002011-10-23T15:55:36.968-07:00Upstream Development<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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First clue that something was up? Hundreds of these dump trucks with trailers dumping loads of dirt on the site all day long for <b>days. </b>By the way, the large trees on either side of this driveway are now gone...<br />
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</div>I call the mound of dirt that they brought in "The Kenmore Matterhorn". I was pretty excited to see a chance for a photo with a person on the pile for scale. See him? It's unbelievable that all of that dirt is really going to be used here. <br />
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When I went down to the city to see what was going on and point out the lack of an information sign, they were kind enough to give me a map of the project and mark on it where silt fencing should be. The silt fencing is supposed to keep muddy runoff from flowing right into the stream. I have to say that so far it seems to be doing an excellent job.<br />
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But on October 3rd we just happened to notice that the stream looked like this in our yard -<br />
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There was an excavator and other equipment working where the stream flows through the project property (see them behind the trucks on the right) -<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Luckily the city contact person has been excellent in getting right back to us when we have had concerns, and that day he whipped right out to the site to check it out. Evidently the project required a temporary diversion of the stream to build a new stream-crossing, and it was all done with the proper permits. I'm not sure why this is OK at the time of year when salmon are returning....seems like it should have been done in the summer. A few days later the city contacted us to warn us that the project was going to take the stream out of the diversion and that there might be silt in the water again. We appreciated the warning. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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This is a picture taken today. You'll notice that the massive dirt pile has shrunk. Some of it must have been used to raise up the grade of the entry road, since that has now less of a dip. The cement walls are evidently where the stream runs under the access road. Someday I'll walk down there to take pictures of the stream, but surprisingly enough there was someone riding around the property on a golf cart today, so I stuck to the street....<br />
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<div>The most exciting creatures that we've seen in our yard so far this summer were probably these two sweet fawns passing through with their mother. I couldn't believe my eyes. Deer always seem to appear on drizzly, dark days (so unfortunately my photos of them are always a bit blurry). They eventually headed north into the protection of the stream buffer across the street.</div><div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We've been seeing more rabbits than ever this year. In fact, just this weekend our neighbors discovered a rabbit burrow complete with babies in the middle of their backyard lawn. Here's the cute little guy that was in our front yard earlier this summer -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm still wondering if the rabbit population has increased since the coyotes aren't around like they used to be. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh, and they are "cute" as long as they aren't in our vegetable garden...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">which had been singing to me all winter and spring from this tree, had babies. It was hard to miss the presence of the young ones because they made such a racket, especially in the late afternoons. They would hang out under the parent's favorite little tree and squawk. I can't believe I managed to sneak out the door and get a photo of the parent feeding the juveniles, though it is a rather blurry shot...</div><br />
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Every year we have a new robin's nest on either our grape or wisteria arbor. Here's a parent sitting on this year's nest (this year it's the wisteria) -<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">This, I believe, is one of the adults flying on a maiden voyage with it's fledgling in early July - </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">They were circling above our yard and one of them was making the screeching sounds that the young do in the nest. The young one is like a dark shadow in all of my pictures - </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wads of tiny garden spiders were all over the place by the end of May. Now I'm walking through their spider webs everywhere!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">We recently caught a great interview on <a href="http://www.kser.org/">KSER</a> that explained the <b><a href="http://brc.healthebay.org/">Beach Report Card</a></b>, an interesting resource on the website of <a href="http://www.healthebay.org/">Heal the Bay</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">. Heal the Bay is an organization that has been </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">working</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> since 1985 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">to make the waters along the southern California coast safer and healthier. Their Beach Report Card lets you search for coastal beach reports (they include Puget Sound beaches) by county in Washington, Oregon and California. Beaches are given two letter grades, one for "wet" (after rain) and one for "dry". Heal the Bay compiles information from county health departments in order to come up with their grades, which are updated weekly. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">The Beach Report Card gives information about salt water beaches in our area. But if you want information about the water quality at<i> some</i> swimming beaches on lakes in King County, the county has a map on its website - </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://green.kingcounty.gov/swimbeach/">http://green.kingcounty.gov/swimbeach/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm sorry to see that there is no water quality testing data for the swimming beach at Logboom park at the north end of Lake Washington, and the only archived data available for that location is from 2005. Unfortunately I did not find a similar resource for the current water quality of fresh water swimming beaches in Snohomish County.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The city of Kenmore has been taking water samples from Little Swamp Creek in our yard periodically to monitor its water quality, and maybe at some point we can get that information and share it. <a href="http://www.ci.bothell.wa.us/Site/Content/Public%20Works/Surface%20Water%20Mgmt/COBLoch2011TMDL.pdf">"North Creek and Little Swamp Creek Sample Results 2010 Fecal Coliform Bacteria Total Maximum Daily Loads"</a> is a water quality monitoring annual summary report by the City of Bothell that includes an explanation of how the fecal coliform levels in Little Swamp Creek in Bothell were improving after the owner of a shopping area with a duck pond began discouraging the feeding of the ducks. I think most people around here know the shopping area that the report is referring to. That duck pond is near/part of the headwaters of Little Swamp Creek, so we definitely appreciate those efforts!</div>Stream keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794438813051259822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192866454254008683.post-89379793920589314822011-05-19T20:08:00.000-07:002011-05-19T20:08:18.395-07:00Streamside planting update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It has been two years since the east side of the stretch of Little Swamp Creek that flows through our yard was re-planted with a riparian zone of native streamside plants, and one year since the west side was planted. It's about time for some before and after photos to show off the success.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The south half of the eastern bank, right after planting in 2009</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The south half of the eastern bank, two years later</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking in from outside the front fence in 2009</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking north from mid-yard in 2009</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking north from mid-yard today</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The back corner in 2009</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;">And the west side of the stream - </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking north right after planing in 2010</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking south in 2009</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Northwest section right after planting</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;">We added some new mulch on the west side of the stream earlier this spring, both because it was a little thinner over there and because we lost some mulch in one particularly dramatic flooding event this winter.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Some of the plants are starting to spread out via runners - </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"> Unfortunately the deer that periodically pass through like to nibble on the red-flowering current and the red twig dogwood plants, but they haven't done too much damage - </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks again to the <a href="http://www.streamkeeper.org/aasf/Welcome.html">Adopt A Stream Foundation</a> and the <a href="http://www.edcc.edu/leaf/">LEAF School at Edmonds Community College</a> for this amazing project!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Time for a visual update on what's going on along our stretch of Little Swamp Creek. This post is all fauna. I'll blog about the flora soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heron hunting again in the field behind our yard.</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Living here I get to see birds that I always used to think of as a "forest" birds (birds that I would only hear and see when hiking or camping) right in our yard. This varied thrush is a great example.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The most exciting news right now is that I am convinced that the neighborhood hawks have eggs in their nest. A hawk has been sitting in the nest most of the day lately. Here is a picture with the hawk hunkered down and facing to the left -<br />
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When I took this picture the hawk was doing a little housekeeping, so it's tail was sticking up toward me -<br />
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According to what I read on the <a href="http://www.seattleaudubon.org/birdweb/bird_details.aspx?id=106#nesting">Seattle Audubon webpage about Red-tailed hawks</a>, these hawks are monogamous, both the females and the males build the nest and incubate the eggs, the eggs take around 30 days to hatch, and the female takes care of the babies for the first month or so after they hatch while the male brings them food. We will probably know when the eggs hatch because in the past we would hear the calls of those little birds all day long for quite a while. Unfortunately I will lose my ability to take pictures pretty soon when the trees I'm shooting through leaf out. <br />
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Back on March 14th we started to get a little worried about stream flooding, but luckily the water receded a few inches shy of excitement. As you can see here, the culvert under the street was basically maxed out -<br />
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After THIS deluge I noticed that most of the sediment that had built up on the bottom of the stream all winter seems to have been washed away. This picture was taken today off the south side of the foot bridge -<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Oh, and obviously deer like primrose blossoms. That's what this one is eating on it's way through. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chickadee in an alder tree.</div>Stream keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01794438813051259822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192866454254008683.post-38501851005557566192011-02-17T18:49:00.000-08:002011-02-17T18:49:25.519-08:00Counting Birds This Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">From the website of the Great Backyard Bird Count: </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent. Anyone can participate, from beginning bird watchers to experts. It takes as little as 15 minutes on one day, or you can count for as long as you like each day of the event. It’s free, fun, and easy—and it helps the birds. We'll be adding updated GBBC materials for the next count as they become available."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">This is a bird counting opportunity that I was not familiar with, but since I've been happily noting all of the birds around here lately, I'm glad to be able to put my bird watching to good use! If you are interested in participating too, go the website </span></span></span><a href="http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc">www.birdsource.org/gbbc</a> for details. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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