Rex,
I still haven't had to move the feeder. We've had another rain since the last one. This last rain has the pond at its highest level yet. I got there right after the rain, and the water was coming in from three or four places. The two main inlets had some silt flowing in, but not like the mud flowing in we originally had. The water is a weird color now. It appears to my untrained eye to be a brown algae. I don't know. I have not done a visibility depth test. Here's a pic from yesterday. This is post rain by four or five days..



9 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep.
RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (going away), SMB, and HSB (only one seen in 5 yrs) Restocked HSB (2020) Have seen one of these.
I think that's about all I should put in my little pond.
Otter attack in 2023