MerMay Day 13: Chain Pickerel

MerMay day 13: Chain Pickerel

MerMay day 11: Rainbow Trout

Colorful fish that enjoy gravel-bottomed, cold, rivers and streams.

MerMay day 19: Freshwater Drum

Some currently ongoing research suggest they may be helping to contain a particular species of invasive mussels ... by eating them.

MerMay day 31: Blue Gill Panfish

And Done!

MerMay day 16: Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle

I’m slightly annoyed that this turtle is not, in fact, spiky. I’m more annoyed that the “Eastern” part implies that there are more soft shell turtles that people looked at the little rounded nobs near its head and said “yup, spikes”.

MerMay day 25: Common Carp