brant

January 12, 2003

Colt State Park is full of brant again. They're not blocking the road this time though. They seem to hang out on the grass. For that matter, they've been eating grass kind of like Canada geese. That seems odd to me. I remember reading that their diet consists mostly of eelgrass and when eelgrass started to decline the brant population declined. Some of them could live on sea lettuce and those that possessed that particular ability thrived so the brant population increased again with the new sea lettuce eating mutants. I have no idea where I read that. I'm sure I didn't make it up. But these guys were not eating sea lettuce or eelgrass. They were eating lawn grass. Regular old lawn grass. Is this nourishing for them? Are they a new variant of brant who don't need sea lettuce or eelgrass to survive?

Today's Reading
One Whaling Family by Harold Williams

This Year's Reading
2003 Book List