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More geese are arriving. A recent burst of high temperature has melted nearly
all of the snow cover.
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Teenagers drive around drinking and throw their trash out into the ditches before they reach
suburbia.
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Looking north from under the power lines (leftmost) and south (rightmost).
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Gene, who rents the West Farm, is arriving around noon to tend his chores. He doesn't often come from
the south as far as I can tell, maybe he has been visiting other farmers.
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Here in Field #4a the water shed district has set up spring-flood-measurment apparatus.
Because of the relatively sandy farm soil, rain just sinks in and no stream to carry
off excessive snow melt or rainwater has ever formed in the landscape along Mile Drive.
There will be no standing water this spring of '06.
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Here in spring of 2007, you can see water covering Mile Drive. One of the shots
shows the same view where the spring-flood-measurment apparatus stood last year.
As the snow melts, no water can sink into the still-frozen ground. The result is
this large volume of standing water.
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Here is the scene after my short walk into Field #4a. The field is very muddy and my
shoes have thick mud stuck to them.
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The farmer could use a load of gravel on his driveway.
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Not the greatest picture. This bird was huge, its not one of the American eagles. It's big
like a turkey buzzard, and had some white on it like a turkey buzzard. That's my guess -
turkey buzzard. I won't ever see it again.
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Enlarge these photos to see ducks dropping into a puddle caused by melting snow just
south of Two Oaks. They might seem
too large for ducks, but they have their wings set and so they appear larger. It's hard
to see the ducks in the puddle, but there are a few dozen mallards swimming around.
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Some geese flying over the north end of the county road where it meets Bailey Road.
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