jacobs1stjournal

=//**picture of the pond that looks like a pool.**//= =__**Describe the location **__ = At this place Jack Ass Gingers there isn’t that much people who go there except for people who hike and that is one reason why it is a good location. In order to get to this location you have to walk down a path off of the side of the road. There are a lot of plants and there is a waterfall that leads into a large pond that looks like a huge pool filled with fresh water. The place has a lot of plants. There are a lot of large trees and the soil is very moist because it rains a lot over there. Even though it rains a lot there’s still a lot of sunlight so that the plants can grow. The plants are all green there isn’t really any plant there that is dead. The plants cover around the pond. The water in the pond was brown but it was really cold and the water kept filtering through out the rest of the stream. There wasn’t that much on land species that I noticed. One species that lives at the location is red ants. Almost on every rock there was red ants. I didn’t really see any homes for the ants because they were just running around on the rocks. I am not sure what the red ants eat because there isn’t any other species that I notice besides the crayfish, fish in the pond, and the birds in the trees. There were a lot of pigeons that live at the tips of the trees. They often fought each other for some odd reason. When I first got to the pond I saw birds flying back and forward hitting the water. In the water you cold barley see the fish because they were really small. There was a lot of fish before the waterfall but in the pool part of the stream there wasn’t as much fish. While I was in the pond I swam to the bottom to look if there was any creatures and there was crayfish. The crayfish was kind of big. There was a lot on the bottom. When I was watching some crayfish they fought and one of them died. Most of the crayfish was a dark shade of gray. The water in the pond is probably around fifteen feet deep. =__**Ni ch es **__ = For the birds they live in high treetops that other species cannot get to. Since other creatures cannot reach them they don’t really have any predators to attack them except for other birds. I’m not sure what they eat because I cannot really see all the details on the top of the trees. The birds don’t really have any type of competition with other species in their habitat. But they sort of have a symbiosis relationship with the crayfish and fish. The relationship is mutualism. The birds fly into the water where the crayfish live but it doesn’t affect the crayfish. The niche for the red ants is a wide niche because of where they live and they didn’t really stay in one place. My guess on what the red ants eat is the plants because that the only other species on land is the birds. A lot of the ants just stay on the rocks because there weren’t any ants on the dirt. The only predators that the ants have would be the humans because when we got there it was hard not to step on the ants. The crayfish live under water. They live on the bottom of the pond were there was a lot mud and sticks. The crayfish don’t have any predators because they have the whole bottom part of the pond to them selves and the fish live on the upper part of the pond. I don’t think that the crayfish attack the fish because the fish are fast and they don’t really live at the bottom part of the pond. Even though they don’t attack the fish, the fish is there competition because they fight for the food in the pond with out interacting. The niche for the fish is actually big for them because the whole stream had little fish in it. The water that they live in is fresh water and its really cold. I can’t really tell what they ate all I could see was that they ate little green things that looked like the moss that grew on the rocks in the water. The fish has competition with the crayfish because they live in the one pond and they fight for the food but they don’t interact with each other.