Observation #5

Today was a mild day. It was cloudy, but it was still 68 degrees. Looking at the sky, it looks as if it is going to rain. It was around 6:00pm on Tuesday, May 20. Usually I see tons of birds swarming the sky, but today they were not flying around as much as they normally do. I know they were still around because I could hear them all chirping, but they were not flying about like crazy. I predict that this is because somebody was in my area before me and created a disturbance that scared them away. That or they were taking shelter from a storm that was about to take place. I sat there for a while, waiting for the birds to come out of hiding when I saw a couple of butterflies. They were not colorful like most butterflies, they were white and very fast. I looked and looked for something interesting and I saw a bird in a little swampy island eating something. Then I saw two mallard ducks (a male and a female) floating down the stream. The beginning of the big nest that I saw in my previous observation was considerably bigger. I could not see the birds that live in it, but I will hopefully get to see the little chicks that will hatch in the near future. That was the extent of the fauna that I saw in this observation.
Unfortunately, the forget-me-nots did not bloom as I had hoped they would. They had just spread down the stream bank. There were a whole bunch dandelions that had grown though. The willows that take up my entire area have grown even bigger green blooms. On some of them they even have fuzzy things with yellow tips. As I was driving to my site, I noticed that flat creek, fish creek, and the snake river were all super full and murky due to the run off. I expected for my wetland to be very full and swampy everywhere and murky as well, but it was not. The water level had slightly risen, but it was not murky at all what-so-ever. This is probably because the water in wetlands are purified. Hopefully that in my next observation there will be more changes that will be really interesting.