I’ve been trying to be a bit more deliberate about getting out more. Truth is, I could work 120 hours a week on the farm and still not get everything done. The last few days we’ve been watching the migration at a local marsh, Hendrickson Marsh on the Story-Marshall county line. This was the first day the ice was out.
For this part of the world, it’s a pretty big marsh. It sets in about a mile square block and water probably takes up 1/4 of the square mile. It’s a magnet for ducks and geese.
The were thousands of ducks here today.
We thought we’d try to catch some garden fertilizer in the stream below the marsh. I’m going to try to make a fish emulsion. We didn’t get any big ones, but plenty of little ones and it was a great way to spend a Friday afternoon.