[birdky] ducks in soybeans

The farm adjoining mine used to have a two acre, five foot deep pond. Decades 
of continuous row cropping silted it in and caused it to go dry by 1988. The 
owner bulldozed the old willow grove and has row cropped the pond bottom ever 
since. Now water almost never stands in this bottom long enough to drown out a 
crop. A four inch rain on August 11 seems to have temporarily resealed this 
bottom. Yesterday 4 Blue-winged Teals were swimming among the dead soy bean 
stalks. (I could see them from my place without wading through waist high 
soybeans).
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County, KY

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