Thursday 20 June 2013

Around the Garden Pond

A quick look at some of the wildlife in and around my garden pond:

Fly:
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Wasp:
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Pond Skater:
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Not seen so far this year are any water boatmen.

Tadpole:
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Pond Snail:
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Stretch Spider:
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Bathing Birds:

Robin:
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Juvenile Goldfinch and Starling:
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Miniature bullrush,  First of this year's male Blue-tailed Damselflies
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I have spotted some newts but so far they have been too shy to photograph.

7 comments:

  1. Garden ponds are such magnets for wildlife. I think every garden should try to find room for one. They don't have to be big either.

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    1. They are Keith, and so relaxing for us. I can stand or sit for ages just watching what is going on. My first one was a small moulded plastic affair but it attracted frogs and newts.

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  2. oh, loved all these! nice to see the water bugs and snails.

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    1. It fascinates me TWG. I can watch the life in it for hours.

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  3. My first pond was a very old metal bushel basket with a tiny hole in it, and then the pond fever grew from there. Love the snail.

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    1. It is lovely ImaBurdie to see what life is attracted by a water feature.

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  4. John, a great thing to look at. I walk and don't look. Amazing what you have there and on your doorstep.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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