Dec. 15th Photos

Dec. 15th Photos

Pictures from our Nov. 17th Trip

Our company officially has a name!

After a two votes, we finally chose an official name for our company. Up until now we were using the name of last year's class - The Laurelhurst Duck Detective Company. Our class this year decided that it's not just about the ducks, but about the whole pond itself. Therefore, we are the Firwood Lake Detective Company. The official name of the pond at Laurelhurst is Firwood Lake.

Algae Experiments

Here are some pictures of the experiments we are doing with algae. We have one jar of plain pond water, one with bread (to simulate leftovers from duck feeders), one with fertilizer (such as the fertilizer run-off from neighboring homes), one with snails, and one that receives no light. We also have two tanks of pond water: one with a bubbler and one without. We have been testing the turbidity of this water.

Camouflage!

Here's a photo of the company employees, after a day of collecting data.

Our October Laurelhurst Visit

We saw mallards and buffleheads and hooded mergansers and canada goose and gulls and wood ducks and hybrads. There were 78 ducks at laurelhurst. The pond should only hold 20 to 30 ducks. There were 1 group of people feeding the ducks. A student (Annika) talked to the people and this is what she said: um...excuse me... feeding the ducks is bad for them and also it creats algie. Person: ya ,i know [sounding anoyed] Annika: so can you just throw them on the ground not the water. Unfortunately, the people were kind of rude. That is bassicly what I have to report. Thank you!

By Wren

This is a test!

Okay, we're just testing out our blog to see if it works. I think it does. I'm going to add a picture now

Welcome!

Welcome to the Laurelhurst Duck Detective Company blog for Jeremy's class! This site will feature information about our field studies, information collected by the students, pictures of our trips, and other information related to our study of Firwood Lake in Laurelhurst Park.