May 30, 2025
Welcome back everyone to another summer season at SSWA! We are excited to be back at work in the streams with the summer crew starting this week. Our first week started on Tuesday with the installation of water temperature monitoring devices across all of the watersheds. We also spent some time going through our trail cameras. While going through the cams we stumbled upon a beautiful capture of a coyote in broad daylight. It seems like he saw something he liked around our trail camera. In the afternoon we wanted to see what some of our streams looked like and what work needed to be done to them.
The next day we wanted a jump on some early maintenance for our park locations. We started park maintenance by the Westmoreland Pond in the first half of the morning, then the second half we touched up the pollinator garden at the Daryl Guignon Memorial Park. In the afternoon we installed some quadrats which are used to monitor salt marsh grass and health and performed checks on our tree swallow monitoring boxes.
Thursday we took the whole crew out for a chill morning of water quality testing. In the second half of the day, as water quality took up all morning, some of us completed the tree swallow check and did another stream assessment in the Tryon area, the rest of us finished up going through our trail cam photos.
Ending off the first week of work we were limited to what we were able to do as it was pouring rain for most of the day. We did end up mowing and cleaning up some of our pollinator gardens before the rain got too bad, but the rest of the day was spent cleaning up the office and entering the data we had collected all week from different monitoring projects.
Happy to be back!
Love, SSWA
