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The amount of rain that we have been experiencing has been making lakes in the lower areas of the hay fields.

The rain falls steadily and runs in rivulets down the steep hillside. The rivulets grow in intensity and volume as they gather mud, pebbles, crumpled and spent large leaves from the maple trees, fir needles and dislodged duff from the forest floor. The sludge and water mixture flows across the roads at the bottom of the hill and sluices through the barb wire fence into the hay fields were they join again to make small ponds.

The pastures have old drain fields buried deep below the surface, but they cannot handle the volume of moisture that is inundating the low spots of the field.  The largest field has the largest pond is about an acre in size as I write this. With several ponds now dotting the fields, the ducks have begun to move in. Even if it stops raining completely, it will still take several days to drain the ponds.

We have a gaggle or two of wood ducks and mallards that hang around in the winter time. With the river now being so swift and muddy, the ducks prefer to circle lazily around the new ponds that brave the tumultuous Nehalem.

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