Gaspereau on the move; up the North Oromocto River for Watery Wednesday

Above is a gaspereau making its way through the rapidly moving falls of the rushing activity seen below.

  It is a tiring experience and sometimes for the fish there is a gull waiting

to snatch it up when it makes it over the falls

Usually every May, (this year it is happening in April) our river is a location of much activity as Gaspereau moving up river fight the rapids and falls they encounter to return to their spawning grounds further upstream. Large groups of gulls usually gather here to feast on the jumping , quickly moving fish in the fast moving current.

below is a mass of gaspereau waiting at the base of a falls waiting their turn to try to get over the falls.  The dark spots in the picture are the fish

The  gulls swallow the fish whole, as can be seen in the picture below.

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