No work today so we walked out the Island Fields road. It is a dirt road with grass growing up the center. Along the way we pass several resacas, large pond-like areas in the stream. The level of water is going down. They were not very full to begin with. Th ducks and other shore birds like the shallow water. As we aproach it is like they can either hear or see us coming. They take off before we get there. We try sneeking up, but still they squawk and fly off. We decided to extend our walk a bit and circled around Kidney Pond. It too is very low on water and it is filled with green duckweed. We searchd for alligators, but found none. We did find a pile of feathers from some poor
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