Kaylin's+Journal

Kaylin's Journal - Lily Pond Free journal entry I think that the lily pond is a good place to go and obsrve and visit because there are a lot of organisms and a lot of different habitats. You are allowed to observe water, and land animals at the same place. You can create experiments on grass, animals, weather and more.

- It is 3/4 lily pads - There is an island in the middle and is shaped like a deformed oval and it is covered in green and brown grass.There isn't much white grass, so that means it's healthy - The lily pond is surrounding half of the chapel and has a trellise at the right of it if you're looking at the chapel frojm the middle courts. - There is a drain about 2 feet from the rimmed edge and 2 feet from the island. You are able to jump to the drain to the island. The drain is covered with mesh which is connected to white pipes. -The walls of the chapel are mainly white with a bunch of blue streaks going vertically. As you go towards the bottom of the wall it turns brownish goldish. - At the very end towars the steps to the chapel there is a rock - it says "TO OMMEMORATE THE ORIGINAL GIVE OF THESE NEW SPRING LANDS KA PUNAHOU FROM HAWAIIAN CHIEFS IN 1829 HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUNAHOU CENTINNIAL 1941" - The rock is squarish and it has a bunch of cracks from the plate. - There are 8 coconut trees bordering the open area of the lily pond - The grass bordering the lily pond is green with very few brown spots, but is also covered with different sized trees. - The pond is surrounded by a curb. It's about half a foot above the waters. It is very easy for someone to fall in.
 * Lily pond**

Journal Entry #1 - Koi fish -about 2 feet long - Orange and black, Orange and white, Orange white and black, White - Orange fish - No longer than a foot - Black fish - No longer than half a foot - Gold-ish fish - About a foot long, but they don't really fight as much as the black fish and the orange fish. - The fish tend to fight over anything that moves in the water, they are thinking that it is food. - The bigger fish tend to rule over the smaller fish and intimidate them? - The bigger koi fish don't really stay in a group, they stay more by themselves and swim around freely - You rarely ever see just one black fish. They always stay in a group just like the orange fish - There are few bery tiny fish, but they are hard to spot, you can only see them if you look good, they vary in sizes but the ones i could spot were between 1 centimeter to 1 inch - As you move towards the left side of the chapel, you see less and less fish. these fish are more individual then a school or group. most of them ar eth ekoi fish with very few orange or black fish - The black fishes stay at the surfaces and feed off the wall - Black doves are all around and they always go to the island where the hala tree is - Minah birds also like to go to the island in the middle of the water - Little sparrow birds like to jump around on the lily pads and join the other birds on the island as well - The small sparrows don't stay in a group when on lily pads. I assume so it doesn't sink, because when they are on land, they are together in at least pairs. The doves, are always together and never land on lily pads, they usually stay on the island or on the rock walls from the trellise. -** It is located in the middle of the island - The hala tree has a big trunk with 3 main branches coming out from it - The leaves are dangling from them. They are mainly bright green, but when you move towards the ends and tips, they become more yellow and brown -** The Lily Pads connect with each other and also grow some yellow-ish flowers - There are turtles that stay both in the water and on land, they have webbed arms and legs. They vary in size. - the rock walls grows leaves, weeds and have moss and algae on them - The lily pads are also green, but some of the dying ones turn yellow and brown. Most of them are in the shape of a circle with one slit from the middle to the end, but some of them have holes in them and are being eaten. - The stem of the lily pads are no more than 3/4 of an inch - There is about 51 yellow fllowers either blooming or already matured.
 * There are a huge variety of fish.**
 * There are many birds that fly around the lily pond**
 * The hala tree
 * Other

Niches The fish and turtles get fed from some of the Punahou janitor workers, so this is more of a controlled environment, but there are still a lot of other natural things going on. The orange and black fish (smaller fish) stay within a foot of the wall of the bench that people sit on because they feed off of it's algae and moss. As these plants grow the fish eat it, so some of the even smaller fish that can't get to the wall, tend to hang around the gutter, because there are also some growing on that as well. Some of the lily pond is inside the chapel so nothing really lives in there, since there is no sunlight. There are no actual plants like lily pads growing in there and only 5 or 6 fish will visit and just swim around in there for about a minute. Sometimes i also see fish feeding on the lily pads but not very often, they could just be hungry or accidentally swimming into things. The plants around the lily pond as you move towards the hill are healthy since they get a regular supply of water from the lily pond. The water is not very clear so you can tell that the fish are making it dirty somehow and there are some other bacteria inside that are being released from what the fish eat. The turtles didn't seem to do much or feed off of anything but they don't like staying on the island when people are around. Some lily pads have certain parts of their leaf that are broken or "dead" (yellow, brown). This shows something is affecting the leaves, and this could be the little birds that land on it everyday.

Free Journaling #2 - There are a lot of birds that land on the lily pads and hang around the island. If there were no lily pads and the island was gone, would there still be a lot of birds bordering it? - Most of the fish are torwards the outside. Do they only feed off the wall? - Do the fish get fed enough? (because they try to kill each other when something drops in as if they are starving) - Are the turtles affected by this habitat? (They didn't grow very big and they don't seem to interact with the fish and other species in the water)

-Because this environment is a bit controlled as far as the animal species in the water, this makes it a challenge to figure out the natural habitat of the species. There are still some action (symbioses, competition, etc.) going on but not as much as in an open environment that has water and such (like the beach with barely any boundaries) because each species has to fight for their own food (since nobody is feeding them food everyday) and there are some species that feed off of others species creating them to evolve.

Journaling #2 Competition - There are a lot of different types of fish, so if they were fed just a certain amount of food everyday, the smaller tiny fish would struggle to get food. The koi fish and the bigger fish would get more of the food. Predtor - Prey - This environment is controlled so that it is slowing down the process of evolution. Because the fish get fed specific things everyday they don't have as much trouble getting food and they won't have any predators meaning they won't evolve as fast and as much. - The moss and algae on the wall would probably evolve the most and the fastest because there are predators (the fish) feeding off of them. - I think this environment is more controlled, so it's set up that the fish won't eat each other. - There aren't any birds that would eat the fish, but the fish eat some of the moss and algae off the wall There isn't much action going on in th lily pond since it's controlled, there isn't much fighting or eating, but if someone feeds the fish something they all fight and go after it all at once. they almost jump out of the water. -Some invasive things are like litter that happen to fall or flow into the lily pond. This creates problems for the animals in the water because they could swallow it and choke. - The main species that are affected are the fish and the algae, because the birds aren't forced to live in this specific area. They fly in and out of the area, when people are around feeding or other things to their advantage, so they will probably feed on the food and other things laying in the grass. - Also some of the fish feed (accidentally/intensionally) on the lily pads. This would explain the pieces missing from the edges creating them to be the color of brown and yellow.

Free Journaling #3 - The fish still stay around the edges and the amount of each are still around the same. - There are black fish around the most, then the orange, then the koi. - There are sitll a lot birds flying around and hanging around the island. - This time the turtles are in the water and none of them are on the island (land) - All the trees are still the same and there are no other new trees growing. - The pond color is a little darker than the previous days Inferences - The fish stay around the edges by the wal lbecuase there is moss and algae on it. - I think this is true because there are very little fish that hang around the middle of the pond, as you walk towards the chapel there are less and less fish. By the wall/seat, all the fish are (it looks like they are just banging into the wall) picking at (food?) on the wall. - The turtles are shy, so they stay in the water on school days (when there is a lot of people) and on none school days (they stay more on the island) - I think this because the first day i visited the lily pond was on a none school day and almost ALL the turtles were on the island, but when i went all the other days, during school on my breaks they are in the water swimming. i don't think it was the time of day because they were both during the day maybe a little after noon. Hypothesis 1. If we cleaned the wall and threw some food into the MIDDLE of the pond, then the fish would stay more in the middle, then the edge around the pond. 2. If i took a plant from right next to the pond and planted it in the middle field, then it will be less green because it doesn't have as much supply to water. 3. If i put two turtles in two differenut containers and one was surrounded by pictures of people (then put a little island in the middle of the water, then the one with pictures would most likely be on the island and the one with no pictures would probably be mostly in the water

Journal #4 - The first time i visited to look at observations, it was on a holiday from school. - This time i visited it was during school so the turtles were in the water, there were a bunch of birds around but less. There were less black doves but still the same amount of little birds because they don't go around the people as much. - The big koi fish still rome the lily pond and they don't stay around the small fish (orange and black) - The orange and black fish stay mostly around the gutter and the wall/bench -

Experiment - Well i noticed that the turtles are kind of shy of people so if it's a holiday and we don't have school they stay on the middle island, but if we have school they are in the water. During a school day i also always saw a lot of orange and black fish, anywhere i looked, and they were always in a bunch. They normally stay by the wall (where all the people sit) - My experiment was to take a picture of the fish by the wall about a foot out from the wall by segments and count them, then go to the other side right next to the stairs by the chapel and count the amount of fish till the corner of the sidewalk. I would do this 3 days that are during school or a school day, and 3 days that aren't.

Procedure 1. Go to the lily pond and sit on the bench/wall 2. Take a picture of that are about a foot from the wall 3. Move down and take another picture 4. Continue step 3 until you hit the end of the wall/bench 5. Then count all the fish you see in the pictures 6. Then go to the opposite side of the lily pond by the stairs of the chapel. 7. Then take a picture of the area until the corner of the sidewalk (at the end of the indent behind the rock) 8. Then count the fish there just as you did with the fish by the wall 9. Then record the number of fishes. 10. Do this once a day for 3 days on a school day and once a day for 3 days on a holiday or weekend (when we don't have school) (doesn't have to be continuous days)