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[CLKD]

Roe can be carried on birds' feet or in weed which is added to the pond.  I think I saw some tiny fishes in ours yesterday but they are too quick and don't stay still long enough 

[Taz2]

We noticed them first of all one night. You can see them in the pond light. We have also got newts this year but only a few frogs.

Blanket weed and duck weed have invaded which weren't a problem last year but, then again, it was still a scrubby patch of grass a year ago.

Taz x

[CLKD]

I scoop the duck weed with a metal sieve and put my hand in for the blanket weed making sure there aren't any tadpoles still lurking

[Taz2]

That's what I do too. OH laughs at me carefully going through each wodge of blanket weed for all the little shrimpy things and baby watersnails

taz x

[Bette]

Our "wildlife" pond is well-established but got duckweed for the 1st time last year. Just can't seem to shift it which means you can't see the newts, snails etc.  I keep fishing it out - going through it carefully for all little crawlies  - and put it in the barrow so any I've missed can gather in the water there and I can rescue then. Mind you, the blackbirds usually get to them before I do!
Bixby x

[Taz2]

True recycling!

Taz x

[CLKD]

Our blackbirds will help themselves to tadpoles 

I did, I did, see lots of tiny fishlets this morning  - well 4 or 5 anyway 

[CLKD]

Hubby picked the first sweet peas for me yesterday [before we had words  ]

[Taz2]

Our sweet peas have been flowering for a while but they are the everlasting ones which look lovely but don't have a perfume. They were planted for us by some passing bird or something!

Taz

[CLKD]

I can't get the everlasting sweet peas to grow here 

Chick/duck weed is that tiny little green surface plant which sub-divides over and over; blanket-weed clings to the edge of our pond below the water level which I remove by hand when the water is warm enough ............

[Eddie]

I have a problem with blanket weed too. I have a sick fish i've got it isolated just now, poor wee thing. I think we are maybe overstocked, we are building a bigger pond for them, just haven't got around to starting, keep showing hubby pond items, last one was the liner to see if it sparks him off.

[Taz2]

I have just delivered a nest of bank voles to the wildlife hospital. One of the local garden centres had moved a fence panel and the nest was the other side of it. The adult scarpered and hadn't returned five hours later by which time the young were squeaking and quite distressed. Hopefully they will make it. It was a lovely little nest - all moss and chewed up leaves - full of fleas mind. 

Taz x

[Trey]

What a kind heart, Taz.
I had good news this morning.  Papa and Mama bluebird had recently returned to the feeder of fruit and nuts (nothing would do but worms when the babes were in the next.  And this morning they brought the babies, who are flying but still need to be fed by their parents.  Full circle now.

[Bette]

No problem with blanket weed just the b****y chickweed  Any advice on how to get rid of it?
Bixby x

[CLKD]

Metal sieve and scoop into bucket then transfer to compost ........ 2-3 times a week at this time of year

How nice that the Bluebirds returned    - a few years ago I watched some birds teaching their young how to peck small pieces of nut from the feeders