We've had the yellow throated warbler for a couple weeks, wood ducks have returned and this morning, parulas and great crested flycatchers showed but the coolest thing, and know it ain't birds, is large assembly of breeding gar (short nosed I think). They swim up the outlet creek from the river to its source and then perform this massive breeding ritual with the larger females tread water ( not easy, it's flowing fast) and are attended any number of smaller males. It is beautiful sinuous dance and worth the walk back a half mile or so to the west off Jenkins. The numbers conservatively 300, probably more. They full the creek bank to bank just below the bubbler for about 100 feet or more. The water is extremely well treated and has almost no odor and the fish seem to revel in it. It's been going on at a low level for a couple weeks, but it's just reached its peak. D.
