Wildlife Pond Pictures - Let's See Yours!

[Wozza]

Slightly surprised there isn't already a picture thread for wildlife ponds (that I could find) so this is it. I don't have a pond of my own to show off (yet) but I'd love to see all yours!

[ron1863]

I don't have a pond either but I do have water:

[Wozza]

Wow, what's it like when it's not flooded?

We did have four ponds (front garden - fairly wildlifey, back garden - ornamental fish pond, field - frog infested, and one in some woods which I planned on rescuing) however we recently moved so now all we have is a small ornamental fish pond. The upside is that the new garden is a fair size, so hopefully (with permission) I'll have my own wildlife pond project underway!

[tameblackbirds]

Great idea Wozza will post one soon

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by ron1863

I don't have a pond either but I do have water:

Show off
I only finished our pond a couple of weeks ago so it's looking a bit bare & new - looking forward to seeing what I can expect in the coming months/years!

[MarkyPooPoo]

Last year I bought a cheep sand pit (in the sale at B&Q) and stuck it at the bottom of our front garden. Its about a 3ft long 2ft wide and 1ft deep in the shape of a boat.

I put some of my frogspawn from my fish pond and spent a lot of time watching the taddies growing up as well as the other inhabitants. It does'nt take them long to colonise it. Great fun.

[MarkyPooPoo]

Wow Ron thats a great picture have you got any more like that. I'd love to have a river or lake at the bottom of my garden.

I just need to win the lottery now.

[ron1863]

Here's a couple more Mark, sometimes the river gets a lot higher than this, right up to the base of the wall on the right, looks good but the noise is better:

[JeffH]

What a lovely bit of 'borrowed landscape' you have there Ron - the sights and sounds of the river must give you a great deal of pleasure

Ever thought of constructing a Kingfisher nestbank

Here's a couple of shots of one of our two ponds (with stream linking them), the 2nd showing one of our regular visitors -





I was lucky enough to win 'Wildlife Pond of the Year' in 2005 in a national gardening magazine competition

Then last summer I lost all my bigger fish to a marauding Heron but the good news is that we've now got frog spawn in the pond for the 1st time - "silver lining" and all that

Jeff
(schedule 1 Licence holder for Kingfishers and Barn Owls)

[agrumpycow]

That's a fantastic looking pond there, Jeff! I'm very envious