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- Cummings Lake - Cariboo: Mile 150
June 29/42 [1942] A small, shallow
lake on road to Onward Ranch; Lake
in two parts at low water (as on this date)
At higher water the intervening land becomes an
island.
A bloom of flocculent blue-green algae
( [space left blank] ) particularly thick
on larger part.
Birds [underlined] - Coots - eggs + young. Eared grebe
(no nests seen), Golden eye, canvasbacks [duck]
(8 non nesting females - insufficient area?), Ruddy,
Bufflehead, Sora rail, Red wings [red-winged blackbird?],
Yellowheads, Tule wrens.
Muskrats were seen. Tadpoles of Bufo
[toad] present in large numbers; dying among
decomposing algal masses. Cladocera
(Daphnia [space left blank]) in swarms; red in colour.
Vegetation which once bordered the lake
affording much cover has ass been eaten
off in most sections by cattle + horses.
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