Lyrics | The Estuary Song

CHORUS

It’s where the ocean feeds On what the river carries.
It’s where the fresh and salt water mix
With the leaves, the mud, and the sticks.
It’s a soup of life, and it’s thick! Oh, it’s the estuary!

Mud and dead things washing down the river
Settling at the bottom of the Bay
Decomposers eat those dead things
releasing their minerals every day.

Phytoplankton, little plants floating
Using those nutrients while soaking up the sun
Zooplankton are the little critters
That drift with the Phytos while eating some

Chorus

Oyster beds and underwater grass
give food and shelter to many living things
there are clams and snails and little fish hiding
from the appetites the Big fish bring

Rock and Blue fish chase anchovies
great blue heron stalk the water’s edge
eagle and the osprey fishing and flying
as the gulls circle overhead

Written by Bill Brennan and Paul Seydewitz

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