The next thing you know, it's living body of water!!!
OK, so I'm sure I ruined the song, but I do have a few new pics that you guys might like to see.
I promised Meadowlarkponds on of my dam awhile ago, but haven't gotten around to taking one until today. He was out here when I was still digging the dam and piling the dirt up next to my trees. The concern was that the trees would die and I'd have a mess on my hands. I was pretty worried about this myself, and have been watching the trees to see if I'd have to remove them. My guess was that half would die. As you can see in the first picture, I've been very lucky and they are all doing great!!
There was also quite a bit of discussion on the clarity of the water. I've done nothing to it, but let it sit and hoped for the best. Either way, what I ended up with is what I'd leave it at. Luckily, it has cleared up to a level that I never expected possible. We can easily see two feet from the shore and are debating wether we can see three feet.
I'm going to make a Secchi Disk
Secchi disk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia to find out the actual level of clarity real soon. Now that it's clear, I'm very curious to the actual number.
The second picture shows some logs laying along the shoreline that are half submerged. You can see them under the water with the naked eye, but the camera didn't show them very well. Steph put her sunglasses over the lense of the camera to see if it helped. It did!!!
Third and fourth pictures are of a cattle egret that watched us walk around the shore. It just stood there posing for us for awhile, then flew to another stump for some more pics with a different perspective. Some birds are just more camera friendly then others!!!
The last picture is of me standing on my shoreline road with Lake Marabou behind me. What I really like is how nice and green the dam is and how it looks natural with the trees all around it.
We didn't get any pictures of the minnows, but there are thousands and thousands of them. The ones I put in a few months ago are the largest, but there are schools of them in two different sizes. Some small ones and some tiny ones. What's funny is that the tiny ones seem to be chasing around the small ones. We would walk every ten to twenty feet and look in the water for minnows. Every time, we saw hundreds of them!!!!!!!!!
There is no sign of the catfish or bluegills, but we really don't know what to look for or how to measure there numbers. There are fish constantly coming to the surface all over the lake. It's going on all day long, and all over the surface. There's no telling what they are or how many are in there!!!
Eddie