I guess we need to be careful what we wish for. This spring has been wet in NW IA too. After 3 years of drought, we seem to get rain about every 4 days this spring. 1.25" Monday night into Tuesday and it is raining again as look out the window now. A great year to plant trees or grass....I usually plant some trees and this year I did a bit of lawn grass too...haven't watered it from a hose yet! I am lucky as we are higher ground with quite minimal chances for water to stand. Our subsoil is likely getting rehydrated now too, I thought that would take years to happen! I would like to see how far ahead we are for YTD precipitation compared to our average, it must be close to a foot I would guess. Great for our habitat, not the best for nesting birds, I am thinking we are a week or 2 from the hatch, they will fair much better in dry conditions that wet.
