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#pondlife

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Katherine
I love Common Mergansers and Red-necked Merganser's, but the male Hooded Merganser is my first fancy duck. I first saw him at this time of year pulling out all his best tricks to find himself a mate. He's just a little duck, but he struts around the pond like he's a bald eagle in a field full of slow-moving sparrows.

#pondlife #hoodedmergansers #ducks #birdphotography #outdoorvancouver #vancouverbc #photography #naturephotography
#naturephotography
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elbowcrooker

'Pond life' is sometimes used as an insult applied to particularly contemptible people but I feel that this is unfair to actual pond-dwelling creatures which, by contrast, are mostly harmless and frequently fascinating lifeforms.
Frogspawn is a case in point. You can see that our tiny garden pond is full of the stuff. Zoom in and you can tell that the embryos are starting to elongate towards the shape of a tadpole.
#pond #frogspawn #tadpoles #frogs #pondlife #wildlife #gardening #reptiles

4 or 5 large 'dollops' of frogspawn can be seen in our small garden pond.
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Moe Lassus

We have toads! As soon as the highs reach 80ºF and the nights cool, the good ole American toad goes on the hunt for lady toads. To get the lady toad’s attention the males make a loud high pitched shrill that will split your skull clean in two. Ok, I exaggerate but it's LOUD! They are most active at night but daylight doesn't temper their passion.

Photo: Top toad is “singing” and the bottom two are…”swimming” together. Does this need a content warning? 🐸

Toads. One toad has his throat inflated making a mating call. Two other toads, a male and female, are in a “loving embrace” shall we say.
#nature#toad#animal
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ruari

I was watching a video with the smalls earlier about pond restoration. It was showing that ghost ponds and zombie ponds can be taken back from their undead state.

The project is the Norfolk Pond Project and even has a free guide (pdf) on the restoration, creationg and management of ponds.

What appears, to me, from the video is that the farmers, sorry to put blame at farming community, don't seem to be good custodians of the land they're on and fill in or mis-manage the land adjacent to the ponds.
One of the ponds has over a meter of leaf-litter sitting, anaerobically digesting, at the bottom of a pond, it's starved of light and starved of wind. Haven for midges and the like but simultaneously bad for bats and birds that feed off the insects.

YouTubeBringing 'ghost' and 'zombie' ponds back from the deadBy RAZOR Science Show
#ReWilding#ReWetting#ReWildingUK
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