Happy spring! I wait anxiously each year for the ice on the pond surfaces to break up. One of my favorite activities on a spring/summer evening is to do a stake out at the beaver ponds. I love watching these creatures go about their evening routine of searching for food, grooming and swimming gracefully back and forth.

When I was on the trails the past couple of days, I noticed that the pond creatures could be in trouble unless there is a good amount of spring moisture.

Usually the snow melt fills the ponds but this year there wasn't much snow and the ponds are looking pretty sad; more like bogs than ponds. Where does that leave the beavers, muskrats, waterfowl and all the creatures that are not visible?

Both the ponds that I enjoy going to the most still have ice cover but the level of it is down to about one third of what it should be. I sure hope that spring will bring some good rain or my favorite pond creatures could be in trouble.

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