Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Food Chain levels

Green Frog
Secondary Consumer
Rana Clamitans

Eastern Garter Snake
tertiary consumer
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis

Pesky Mosquito
Primary Consumer
Ochlerotatus abserratus


Red Tailed Hawk sighted from up close but soon became just a distant dot.
Quaternary Consumer
Buteo jamaicensis

Seagull
(young in age because it hasn't come into its black and white plumage)
Scavenger, but also a quaternary consumer though the red-tailed hawk probably preys on them when famished
Larus pacificus

NOTE
All these species were found in close proximity in Brewster Mass near Long Pond on Crosby Neck Road

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