today my best friend and i went exploring a creek that i thought would have a lot of salamanders and stuff but we only found one (1) crawdad and a single salamander in the leaves, and there were no fish which was weird for a creek of that size. We thought that there must be something wrong like pollution from pesticides. The creek seemed to be surrounded by woods as far as we walked but we don't know what is farther upstream
could be a matter of timing/seasonality but something seemed off especially with there being no fish at all, we have had several days of warmth and the spring peepers are calling
saw some amazing moss though, the thick and lush layers of moss coating the trees and logs were like nothing I'd seen before
the plushness and density of the moss on the trees was such that it left a handprint when I pressed my hand into it
