Mike, Chris...thanks for the comments. Chris, this is a rather dynamic creek (given the size of its watershed) which was dammed with a short slot dam about 50 years ago and is largely filled in now...about 2 feet water max. We had a flash flood this spring, thus the trash, literally everything here ...

This is my current favorite place, a wetland I have been developing on my farm in central Kentucky (USA). It has everything and gets better each year, plankton (photomicrography is a major interest of mine), mammals and birds, and wild and native plants (I collect seeds and propagate them, the yello...