This is another picture of a cattail. It's kind of a boring organism to post, but I couldn't get a good still shot of a bird or another animal. Also, there were a lot of cattails in and around Spencer Island so that tells me the are pretty important. I saw this particular plant at the edge of the park, near the picture above. It was probably offering landing spots on the top of it, while supplying oxygen to the other animals within the park. Since this is a plant, it is considered a producer, but it could also be considered in a decomposing rule. The most interesting thing I saw while here was a battle between a osprey and a crow. They were probably battling out for food or land, or simply just because they wanted to. Nothing really changed my opinion about marshes or wetlands in the Pacific Northwest. The only thing I learned was that Spencer Island is huge. My question would be this: Is the falcon and osprey at the top of the food chain in this particular area, or are other land based animals like beavers?
Love your photos! Good question- they are probably the top of their own food chains because I don't think a hawk or osprey can take out a beaver but I am sure they would grab a baby beaver if they could! Beavers are herbivores so they would not eat birds!
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