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Photo by Bill Houghton

More Creek Kids June 2009

Midfield Elementary School 21st Century Summer Academy Camp, June 2009

 
Mud Creek flows over bedrock making a series of cascades.

 
Students look at aquatic animals preserved in jars.

 
In the creek, Maurice finds a rock that has some aquatic insects. A student will take the rock to show other students.

Maurice Jackson pulls a seine.
A student assists with the seine to collect fish while other students observe from a bridge. 

 
Students look for aquatic macroinvertebrates.

 
Two blackspotted topminnows were collected in the seine.

 

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Let's Go Fishing in the Birmingham area!

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How?

 
Students point out immature aquatic insects on bottom of a rock.