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Real progress today. As I was drilling today’s test hole,

4/20/08 – Real progress today. As I was drilling today’s test hole, two male merganser ducks lifted out of the small patch of open water down by Sawbill Creek and flew north. A sure sign of spring. I heard the first robin singing yesterday. – Bill
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19″ with only an inch or two of slush. Ice is somewhat degraded through and through.
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It is getting pretty sloppy in front of the canoe landing.
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A pileated woodpecker has started working on a home in one of the big red pines in our canoe yard. It’s fun to see one of these large, primitive looking woodpeckers close-up, but it’s probably bad news for the pine. The woodpecker may have found some rot and is certainly weakening a tree that we don’t want to fall across a rack of Kevlar canoes!