Bottoms Up - part 2 !

Pretty good 9,8/10!!

Have you tried straw for clearing the water? We've tried allsorts in past ponds & end up fishing it out by hand & then picking out all the dragonfly larva to throw back in & leaving it on the edge of the pond for the one's I missed to crawl off!!

Hazel C said:

Have you tried straw for clearing the water?

Hi Hazel,  thanks,  its coincidence you mention straw as we looked into buying some small straw packages recently.   We've also been hand scooping/netting and dragging the weed out by hand so as not to disturb the critters and leaving mounds of the weed on the edge of the pond for same reasons as you do,  athough having the Mallards here doesn't help them as some creatures must get consumed !  

Who might this rather bedraggled individual be?

Yes, it's Britain's National Bird, trying to sober up after a night out 'on the mealies' to celebrate his landslide victory!

The risks I take in order to keep this thread going...

Don't you dare!!!

Such a good capture MC!

Follow me Fallow down to the meadow and there let us wallow in a view of my grass.

With apologies to Flanders and Swann

Oh TJ ... crying with laughter here you naughty man!!

rofl @ Tony,    I see this forums back to "normal" again !!      I now can't drink my cup of coffee for laughing !    All I see now for some reason are Hippopotami   lol

Wow!  I go away for a while and find I've missed a whole new Bottoms Up thread.  Having just been through all of them I'd award the prize for cutest bottom to the wren.