Out To Estill Fork Today

We're going to Estill Fork to collect darters for Robert's project. The primary species are tennessee snubnose and fantails/stripetails, we'll also keep any johnnys that we find. This week Robert re-ID'd all of the "fantails" that I had collected last May at the Baptist Church site, and half of them are stripetails based on a dark submarginal band on the first dorsal. And, they all seem to be female which makes sense since I netted them above the riffle there in pools along the bank where females would congregate during breeding season while the males defend territories in the riffle. We'll see what happens today, we should probably revisit the Baptist Church site as well as our usual site.