In the interest of accurate reporting, I wanted to edit our species list from last Saturday's Little River trip with thanks to Dave Neely. First change--as list recorder, I put down that we had seen Alabama Shad since Casper and Steven had seen a large school of deep-bodied fish upwards of a foot long. 60 years ago these would probably have been largely Alabama Shad, an anadromous species. But today they can't make it from the upper Coosa River/Little River to the Gulf of Mexico because the Coosa is damned to form the modern Lake Weiss. So no Alabama Shad in the area; maybe what was seen was Skipjack Herring, Alosa chrysochloris. (I'm too nearsighted to snorkel easily without a prescription mask, which I'm working on...)

The other mistake was my miscomprehension of recent new species designations within the darter genus Percina: the "logperch" in the Coosa area is now (since 1998?) considered to be Percina kathae rather than P. caprodes, historically a more inclusive taxon. I had thought that kathae was only north of the Tennessee. I'm still adapting to living in an area that has more than two species of darter after my time living in low-biodiversity Massachusetts(!).