Little Things

Here are pictures of some of the little things from our recent alpine hunting trip.  The pair of semi palmated plovers - really tiny little birds - who lived near the outlet of the lake.  A purple fleabane (aster) with dew on it.  There were so many of these flowers that I was wondering if we should collect them too.

But I think the coolest discovery was dolly Varden trout in the lake.  The lake is up at over 1100 feet in elevation and has HUGE waterfalls down lower on the creek that drains it.  How did they get into the lake?  I have seen sticklebacks in these alpine lakes, and at first I thought that this was what we had in the lake. But clearly, as you can see in the photo, these are salmonids of some sort.  A friend tells me they are dollies.  Patrick

Look carefully and you'll see the dollies