Floods Return to the Woods

This morning after three days of soft gentle rain, the skies cleared. At 7:30 PM I entered the Woods by the West Pond. 3.3 inches in 3 days. 4 inches total this seven days brought the West Pond up to 2.50' depth. There were a pair of Canada geese resting there as I walked past. The East pond was up to 3.10'. South of the East Pond the new Woods trail encountered ankle deep flooding from the reclining elm south. I flushed four ducks from the well-flooded Main SW trail and stood to watch and listen to them flying off through the Woods. The Main SW trail was flooded to near the broken elm arch. There should be good collecting of drowned earth worms along the SW trail tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how quickly the water sinks into the ground, or stays ponded above the surface. Heading back along 2 Friends, and then up the EW Trail, Heather's NW block of ash trees was flooded.. but no leaves yet. Next four days forecast is mid 70's. Small pointed green leaves are all emerging on the dogwoods.