Just in time, the rain has come to end the drought (mostly).
The rains of the last week or so has restored water levels in the creeks here. You can see the worst case conditions in the image below:

In a previous post you saw a male hooded merganser. Here is the pair we found in the no-name pond. These ducks tend to breed across all of New England and into Canada on the east coast. They reportedly winter in southern New England and points south. This leaves the question, are they going to depart for the south soon or is Maine now a reasonable wintering ground?

Note to the files: today was the start of hunting deer with guns season here.