With great weather over the next few days, why not get out and see the salmon spawning?

From debcame1, "Michael and Maggie's Salmon Adventure":

In addition Kennedy Creek (via Squaxin blog), McLane Creek is another nice spot to watch salmon.

Bruce Brown, who wrote Mountain in the Clouds, was also an avid fish watcher:

If you spend enough time watching fish -- and an afternoon in the right place can be enough time -- you become aware that there is considerable variety and drama in fish behavior. Far front being cold and alien, as many people think of them, fish can be heatedly emotional and express themselves through a variety of physical displays.

Kennedy Creek Trail 004 by Davide Roe:

If you've never seen salmon spawning in the wild, head out to Kennedy Creek sometime in November. Free entertainment, at the very least.

From SPSSEG:

Welcome back the chum salmon of Kennedy Creek at the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail beginning Saturday, November 1, 2008.

Kennedy Creek is one of the most productive salmon runs in South Puget Sound. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to experience these wild salmon on the 1/2 mile, ADA accessible trail, with 11 viewing stations, interpretive signage, and volunteer guides.

The trail is FREE and open to the public from 10 am to 4 pm on the following days in November:

Weekends (11/01/08 - 11/30/08)
Day after Thanksgiving (11/28/08)
Veteran’s Day (11/11/08)

You can also follow the action out at Kennedy Creek from the SPSSEG's new KC Blog:

Today, folks from Mason Conservation District, Kennedy Creek Quarry, and Mason County Jail, along with yours truly, pruned vegetation, set up netting, and put up the signs for the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail.

After some rain, it turned out to be a crisp, sunny fall day.  We were accompanied by the splashing of male chum salmon, who are already making their way up the creek to spawn.

"They will find another place to feed"

Comments on the discussion at FLOD-milfoil

Well, I didn't read this thread until last night, probably a good thing. I tend to shy away from online discussions about this--I'm a bat researcher, I'm long-winded, and some contributors' fact-checking seems to be terribly poor in these debates about Capitol Lake vs. an intertidal mudflat. A couple of the previous posters have clearly done research... Guglielmo, Thad, 'emmettoconnell' and others are seeking out, and presenting, credible information. Some others have made comments that are just baffling to me. We can read the CLAMP committee minutes and reports that have come out of the CLAMP process, but the facts and back-story, much of which has not been presented in the newspapers or on OlyBlog require some digging beyond the official Estuary website. I've done some linking to custom site searches at Capitollake.com. The one report not to miss is the 'ITR' or Independent Technical Review completed last November, a comissioned review and critique of the 4 prior 'technical reports.' My opinion is that it tore soem of those studies to shreds, but you wouldn't know that from the Executive Summary. The text of the ITR points out many examples of inappropriate analysis methods or study design, constrained RFP guidelines (I believe code for 'here's what we want to hear'), uncertain results, the RFP not asking the right questions... Its a can of worms, not all that long to read, and can be found here:
www.ga.wa.gov/CLAMP/Deschutes_ITR_Report_Oct23_2007-Out_300dpi.pdf

I have radio-tracked bats from the Woodard Bay nursery colony to Capitol Lake, starting in summer 2003. The vast majority of these bats feed at Captiol Lake every night, April/May through Aug/Sept.