Monitoring Report from the Alewife Reservation

Time

Animal

Water Quality

Location

Native Plants

Invasive Plant

4:34 PM

–

Very murky and some trash in water, water level very high

Forebay

Pokeweed

–

4:36 PM

–

flowing steady and looks clear

Swale

Pokeweed, cattails

Phragmites

4:41 PM

–

murky and not moving much

After Swale

Pickerelweed

Phragmites

4:43 PM

3 Mallards (1m/2f)

murky and not moving much

Before exit to little river

pickerelweed

–

4:49 PM

song sparrow

no water at all

Exit to little river

–

–

4:54 PM

2 song sparrows, evidence of beaver

very murky with some trash

Over look

Pokeweed

–

5:03 PM

Muskrat with a lodge that it built out of pickerelweed

murky and not moving much

Birdge

Pickerelweed

–

3:34 PM

Hooded Merganser (m), Downy woodpecker (m), 3 blue jays, 2 grey squirrels, 2 Cardinals (m/f), Common Grackle, 7 Starlings, 3 black capped chickadees, 2 white throated sparrows, Song sparrow, 8 Mallards (5m/3f), Evidence of Eastern cotton tail

Water flowing slowly yet faster in some parts, very murky, some oily substances along a ew spots near the river bank

Section Five of the river restore project

sugar maple, skunk cabbage, Eastern oak

Phragmites, knotweed, bittersweet vines, sumac

3:24 PM

Kingfisher, Cooper’s hawk

Some trash, murky water

Yates Pond

Reeds, bull thistle

Knotweed

3:54 PM

Grey squirrel, 2 Mallards (m/f), Evidence of Beaver chewing on trees on south bank

Murky and moving very slowly

Section four of river restore project

skunk cabbage, horse tail grass, cattails

bittersweet vines, stag horn sumac, phragmites, multiflora rose, grape vines

3:59 PM

–

murky, and flowing quicker than other parts of the river yet still slow

Section three of river restore project

eastern black oak

bittersweet vines, sumac

4:06 PM

2 Mallards (m/f)

At perch pond there is a little trash, murky and moving slowly

Section two of river restore project

skunk cabbage, red maple

Phragmites, bittersweet vines, sumac