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Sally Harrop's avatar

What joy! As you know I'm glued to our new pond right now, amazed and delighted by the life in there!

Great tadpole footage. What *was* that thing that hit it?

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Linda Clark's avatar

I love staring at everything! 🤣 Your pond sounds amazing and so full of life! Hope you get damselflies or dragonflies soon. I enjoy staring at them most of all!

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Daisy R. Birchwood's avatar

Yes we get both, the dragonflies are like spitfires. 😁

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Linda Clark's avatar

They are! Stunning too.

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Melissa Lee's avatar

Oh I loved reading this! I have a couple of barrel ponds, one is brand new, so nothing to report there - but I did spend an entire afternoon pond watching after I spotted some bubbles in my older pond. I was so hopeful that we might have newts, and I spotted something at the edge, taking in some air a couple of times - but since then nothing. My suspicion is that a frog might have made a passing visit.

I dream of frogs and newts! I plan to build a proper pond sometime soon, and then you'll have to drag me away from staring at it :-)

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Daisy R. Birchwood's avatar

Fingers crossed you'll get to spot something aquatic soon. Pond staring is addictive for sure.

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Frances Brown's avatar

Oh, to have a pond! I'm afraid here in the sunny South it would turn into green algae soup in no time :(

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Rose's avatar

Sounds like tadpole city is on the move! Do you know the poem about "What life is this, if full of care/ we have no time to stop and stare...". If you don't, l'll find it for you.

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