The RBA on Friday, mentioned a problem with the East Pond water level. It was an understatement. On Independence Day, Don Riepe and I visited the outflow on the bayside to check on the drainage and found that the valve was buried and hardly a trickle of water leaving the pond.
It would have been easy to give up on the Season given how high the water is but no! I subsequently sent out an e-mail to NPS management who responded with a plan to dig out the valve this AM. I am pleased to report that today, an NPS crew was on site as planned and this AM dug out the valve. The water is flowing quite well and we (Don, myself and NPS) will be keeping an eye on it to ensure it continues to flow unimpeded. As you can imagine, wearing full waders on a hot day was not easy but the work was done nevertheless. A link to a short video clip which I posted on twitter can be viewed here. https://twitter.com/birdingdude/status/1282716449744838662?s=21 If you want to be kept updated on the pond and the level draw down, please send me a note offline. I will provide intermittent updates to the list serve but wait for some movement of the water level before doing so. Many thanks to those of you who show a genuine interest in the management of the East Pond water. We are doing all we can to salvage the Shorebird season. Cheers, -------- "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu The Art of War > (\__/) > (= '.'=) > (") _ (") > Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
