April 20, 2013 Water Monitoring Report

Water quality monitoring is getting underway early this year, and during high water.  The Fox River at the Berlin has been above flood stage since April 12, but it looks like it may be slowly dropping today.  The day started out windy and rough, but the lake gradually improved.  Many kinds of ducks were bobbing up in down in the waves: buffelhead, common and hooded mergansers, mallards, and American  coots to name a few.  I also counted eight common loons, and four Forster's terns over the lake.

Flooded marsh at the mouth of Lake Puckaway (4/20/2013)