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Wildlife
ponds for
everyone!
Not sure if you have space for
a wildlife pond? Think again.
Any pond size is good for
some form of wildlife: from
a buried water-filled bucket,
to a textbook wildlife pond
(complete with pond-dipping
platform and bird-hide). The
point is, wildlife ponds can be
for everyone, whether you
have a backyard, allotment or
garden.
Don’t be put off by price
either. Creating a pond can be
as cheap or expensive as you
want it to be. You can spend
£5 or £500. Similarly you can
spend two hours, two days or
two weeks. Whatever you do,
Just Add Water.
The distinctive yellow and
black collar of the grass snake
makes it easy to identify.
Grass snakes are excellent
swimmers, so encounters are
often fleeting.
A healthy pond will quickly
colonise with various
invertebrates, including pond
snails, dragonfly larvae and
water boatmen.
The pond may be visited by
hungry birds like kingfishers
and herons, or thirsty
mammals like foxes and
hedgehogs.