Creating a Lake

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EddieWalker said:
Thank you everyone for your help in identifying that bird. It really had us puzzled, and one thing about Steph, is she loves a puzzle. We went down to the lake several times over the weekend to see it again and get some better pictures. She finally got close enough for some pics, but had to do them off hand as the tripod wouldn't set up and allow her to take the shots. It's a touch blurry, but still clear enough to see the spots on it's chest.

Yellowish beak and legs with spots on it's chest makes it a Spotted Sandpiper to us. We're open to suggestions and corrections, but that beak color is the main thing that we couldn't find in any of the other birds we looked at.

Eddie

Eddie,

Has Steph tired a monopod for her camera? I've never used one, but it might give her the stability she needs without all of the adjustments required with a tripod. Also, lighter weight. Here's a link with what I'm talking about.

Monopods
 
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My wife and I have adjustable length hiking sticks with a wooden ball on top (comfortable to the hand) which screws off revealing a tripod type screw that fits the standard socket on cameras. Just takes a few seconds to mount the camera. The walking stick is quite handy for "beating the brush" actually alerting any snakes in the grass of your approach so they get a chance to slither away before you are within range.

As a camera monopod it works pretty well, good for long telephoto shots and macro stuff where the extra stability is desirable. Much lighter weight than a tripod and serves other purposes. Not as effective or featured as a good tripod but much more likely to be taken along.

Pat
 
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john_bud said:
Neat thing about ponds, you build one and pretty soon new and wonderful living creatures are all over the place.

At least it wasn't a snake nymph!

jb

You know your lake is well stocked when these guys show up for dinner.

Pelicans-copy.jpg

Thanks for the thread Eddie.
 
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That's funny. I guess they are trying to figure out the "fish finder".
 
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Eddie,

You think we can get a picture of that lake? Haven't seen a new one in a while. I was putting in a small culvert for the first time last night with the new JD2320 and I got to thinking about a pond of my own (again), I'm gonna give it a whirl here one of these days. The wife wants the pond two and she even asked if you had any new pictures of your lake ( I showed her your progress pics a couple of weeks ago.. Have a good one.

Semper Fi,
Mike
 
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Mike,

Here's some pictures I took almost two weeks ago. We were planning on going for a walk around it over the weekend, but that never happened. It rained a quarter inch yesterday and today is at one inch so far, with more coming. The lake was 14 inches low when I took these two pictures.

I didn't take pictures of this, but the shoreline is full of deer and wild hog tracks. The hogs all seem to be small with allot of piglet tracks. There is some damage from rooting along the top of the dam, but mostly they seem to like to drink from the emergancy spillway.

I just bought a used 7 foot Landpride finish mower yesterday and will pick it up on Saturday if the weather is clear. It's used, but in really good condition for $600. That should make mowing along and around the dam allot easier and with better results then my 6 foot Landpride bush hog. I've really wanted something that would follow the contour of the ground on four wheels. It has four big wheels at each corner, plus those long, flat rollers in the center for high spots.

I'll post pics when I get it and comment on the results.

Thanks,
Eddie
 

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bmac,

I showed Steph the link to the monopod and she's very interested. She said she's going to look into them.

Thanks,
Eddie
 
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It's rained every day this week. Monday was a long term thing that only gave us half an inch. Tuesday was also an all day rain that gave us 3/4 of an inch. Both days didn't have very much runoff. Just a good, long soaking.
Then Wednesday, we had a very big storm come through that droped an inch in 18 minutes and another quarter inch in half an hour. That has some serious runoff!!! Last night we got another 2 inches fairly quickly with lots of runoff. Four and a half inches raised the lake 7 1/2 inches, but I think most of the water came from the fast, heavy downpours.

The grass is really starting to show up now. I planted allot of bermuda seed last fall, but it went dormant over winter and I haven't seen too much sign of it. Today is the first time I've seen multiple sprigs coming up. It's still kind of thin, but there is so much of it that in no time, it will be nice and thick!!!

Eddie
 

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