Re: OT: 'Tis the season to be ... careful

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:22:36 -0500, maryann kolb <mkolb@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


It's hot here in South Carolina and still no rain. As they mentioned
on TV last night we will all be paying for this in the future--crops
dying, cows drying up and the price of feed through the roof. etc.
One of the places where I go birding often has almost no birds right
now. It should be full of wintering sparrows and wrens. There is no
water there. the drainage ditch which is almost always wet and its
little pond both are dry and dusty. I guess the birds have moved on,
looking for a better place to winter. I heard somewhere that it would
take at lest 3 years of above average rainfall for this area to begin
to recover. I don't know about the rest of you but I am scared.

Mary Ann
Barnwell, SC
No kidding Mary Ann, Lake Marion is very low, many of the areas I
normally see lots of Egrets and Herons wading is bone dry and dusty.
Black River near Kingstree is down and the Laws Swamp nearby has nary
a drop or a bird to be seen. Lynches River at Effingham is shallow
enough to walk across right now without getting my knees wet. It is
Ugly Dry. Hell Hole Swamp in the Francis Marion National Forest is
drier than I have ever seen it. We need rain, lots of it over a long
period of time.

Dave
Dave Fouchey

Florence, SC

N34° 11' 36.40"

W79° 47' 6.85"

WA4EMR
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