Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Bluegills on Spawning Beds

A bluegill guards her nest - called a redd. 
Spring time nesting is not just "for the birds"!  The last week of May brings the pond's bluegills to the warmer water around the shore line, where they clean up a circle of pond bottom - around 18" in diameter - to lay their eggs. They stay on the nest, called a redd, guarding it for a few weeks.

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