Finally got back into the marsh yesterday after the latest round of access wars, got my teal stuff out, blind cleaned, bailed and covered and went to work on opening the rest of the pond and breaking the flotant covering the back blind's trail. (And still got home in time to watch LSU earn some vindication for last week's sloppy play.)
Did what I could to lighten Marsh's load on bird's falling south of the blind by cutting that side of the blind island much narrower than it's been, so he'll have less of its miserably thin flotant to fight before reaching the boat trail's swimming water.
Not a good shot, because the bull tongue hides how narrow the island now is where Marsh has to cross it, but all I have of that remodel:
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And it does illustrate one of the more "interesting" problems I encountered (along with breaking though flotant and going over my hip boots - twice), in that while trying to run over and clip a last four or five feet off the island's tip, I managed to break the whole east end of it off at a point just behind those bull tongues and even with the blind's east end. Had to push it back in place, stake it with a long 2"x 4" and hope the break will mend itself before a storm (or big wind?) pushes it somewhere I'd really rather it weren't.
Will meet the sun out there again this morning, only this time just to conserve time to mow our yard before the next rains fill the ditches again, as yesterday morning's sunrise bird watch was a total bust. Did not see a single duck of any description all day.
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