{"id":16539,"date":"2023-10-12T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T00:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?p=16539"},"modified":"2023-10-12T21:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T01:54:25","slug":"is-birding-better-at-lake-jackson-when-its-dried-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/2023-10-12\/is-birding-better-at-lake-jackson-when-its-dried-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Is birding better at Lake Jackson when it\u2019s dried down?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U4CKnlEz47c?si=gv6vv5iPg38DPkFY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>We met at 7 am to answer a question. For the previous couple of months, I\u2019d been wandering Lake Jackson\u2019s exposed bed, and observing the area around Porter Sink. The lake had been down since November, and on and off&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/2021\/06\/lake-jackson-dry-down-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/\">since June of 2021<\/a>. With all the rising and falling of water, I began to wonder how plants and animals reacted to this ever changing habitat. At the same time, Cait Snyder wondered more specifically about birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cait is Resource Manager for the Lake Jackson Aquatic Preserve. In her own wanderings around the lake, she\u2019d gotten to know a group of birders who had been especially active since the June 2021 dry down. Cait could see a lot birds in the lake when it was down. But it\u2019s one thing to see. She wanted to know, numerically- do more birds, and bird species, visit when the lake is down?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0225-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0225-small-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"November 4, 2022- the area around Lake Jackson's Porter Sink just after drying down. Birds are active in and around the remaining water.\" class=\"wp-image-20446\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">November 4, 2022- the area around Lake Jackson\u2019s Porter Sink just after drying down. Birds are active in and around the remaining water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/2023\/03\/is-birding-better-at-lake-jackson-when-its-dried-down\/\" style=\"border-radius:42px\">Click here to read the rest of the WFSU Ecology Blog about the birds at Lake Jackson.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met at 7 am to answer a question. For the previous couple of months, I\u2019d been wandering Lake Jackson\u2019s exposed bed, and observing the area around Porter Sink. The lake had been down since November, and on and off&nbsp;since June of 2021. 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