Quick Stream Survey Summary

We went out on Thursday to survey 2000 stream feet at two sites in Limestone County, Alabama, for rare spring pygmy sunfish and tuscumbia darters. Both of these sites are north of any historic sites for the spring pygmy. We didn't find either species at either of these sites, which turned out to be all wrong in terms of habitat conditions. But both of these streams feed into lower Beaverdam Creek which is the habitat for both species. I'll post more once I submit the final version of my report to the company that requested our survey. One last tease, we found flame chubs at one of the sites, along with stripetail darters which were totally unexpected.

I took this photo just after we arrived at Oakland Spring Branch, on the edge of a soy field. It was both cold and wet. Left to right, Kevin, Andrew and Brittany.