On May 5, 5:20 pm, Derek Broughton wrote:

Dave noticed that there were odd patches and streaks of calm, bright
water on the surface of two ponds that we passed.

The calm, bright kind of surface also seemed to be near the shore of
the pond at one end at least (I didn't get out of the car and take a
good look all around the pond).

We argued about what might cause the effect. Unfortunately, we didn't

take any pictures to help with the argument.

My theory is that there could be any number of sources of oil ...

That certainly could be a reason, but more likely it's just localized wind

effects.

OK. Hadn't thought about odd wind currents that might ripple
some parts of the pond and not others. ...

Of course, it could be ice... I don't know what Western NY is like righ
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now, or how high you'd have been, but for sure it can't be _too_ long sinc
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the ice was off their ponds.

~400 feet above sea level or thereabouts.

The ice is all melted. We've had several weeks above
freezing and the ponds aren't too big or too deep.

We even had a week in the 70s and 80s. Felt like
summer!

Marty