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Originally Posted by vinnychameleon  Hi guys. I was wondrin when I build my pond(it will be about 4x3 metres) if I plant sedges all around one edge of it(in the shallow muddy end) do you think I could get wintering water rails on it? as I know they frequent small bodies of water in winter. |
To be quite honest....no.
It isn't so much the small sized habitat that you are trying to create, but the lack of food for a water rail in it.
Rails will need lots of food to keep them satisfied during the winter period and your area of sedges would not hold a huge amount of food for one.
You will however get all sorts of other wildlife taking an interest in the pond.
Wait until you get dragonflies ovipositing on your water plants, water boatmen and pondskaters zipping around. More than enough to keep a WABber busy.
