Wildlife Ponds
Peter Stace
book to know what the hell is going on in it i.e. the yearly cycle of the
ponds animals and plants etc - nitty gritty stuff and NOT how to build them
(as its already built) or how to look after the fish!!! or one without
Charlie what's-her-face in!!!
Can anyone help me find a decent reference book for wildlife ponds?
Peter
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Kay Easton
writes
>I've just built a wildlife pond last year and I'm trying to find a reference
>book to know what the hell is going on in it i.e. the yearly cycle of the
>ponds animals and plants etc - nitty gritty stuff and NOT how to build them
>(as its already built) or how to look after the fish!!! or one without
>Charlie what's-her-face in!!!
>
>Can anyone help me find a decent reference book for wildlife ponds?
You probably need to look for a natural history book rather than a pond
book - that said, I haven't found anything that's comprehensive and
still has a reasonable depth of information. I use the Reader's Digest
Field Guide to the Water Life of Britain, which is quite good on
habitats. Rivers lakes and Marshes, in the Natural History of Britain
series published by Hodder and Stoughton, is probably better for
identification
... the leech bit is, anyway (but then I have to say that or my computer
engineer goes on strike ;-) )
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Jill Bell
writes
>I've just built a wildlife pond last year and I'm trying to find a reference
>book to know what the hell is going on in it i.e. the yearly cycle of the
>ponds animals and plants etc - nitty gritty stuff and NOT how to build them
>(as its already built) or how to look after the fish!!! or one without
>Charlie what's-her-face in!!!
>
>Can anyone help me find a decent reference book for wildlife ponds?
>
>
>
It might be worth trying at
The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
http://www.btcv.org/
Jill
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Jill Bell
<ran...@mearsgyl.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <85sc2s$358$1...@epos.tesco.net>, Peter Stace <pst...@tesco.net>
>writes
>>I've just built a wildlife pond last year and I'm trying to find a reference
>>book to know what the hell is going on in it i.e. the yearly cycle of the
>>ponds animals and plants etc - nitty gritty stuff and NOT how to build them
>>(as its already built) or how to look after the fish!!! or one without
>>Charlie what's-her-face in!!!
>>
>>Can anyone help me find a decent reference book for wildlife ponds?
>>
Though it does give you something to look at until everything else gets
established! And if you're lucky the heron will then eat them:-)
Really if you have fish, don't worry too much - in our small 6x8 pond we
still get frogs toads, smooth and great crested newts, dragonflies,
damselflies and chasers, waterboatmen and pondskaters - to name but a
few. Other than preventing the pond weed from taking over we do next to
nothing in the way of maintenance, and let nature take its course.
Jill
cormaic
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> in our small 6x8 pond we
>still get frogs toads, smooth and great crested newts, dragonflies,
>damselflies and chasers, waterboatmen and pondskaters - to name but a
>few.
We get a pesky kitten in Mrs Taz's Pond of Certain Death
(tally to date 3 dead fish)
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Lee and Kath
>Can anyone help me find a decent reference book for wildlife ponds?
>
Whittet Books do a great one by Trevor Beebee, called Pond Life.
ISBN 0-905483-99-5 approx 8 ukp.
A very good read.
Also the RHS book Water Gardening by Philip Swindells ISBN 1-85732-974-0 again
about 8UKP.
K
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Jill Bell
<cor...@NOSPAMTODAYTHANKStmac.clara.net> writes
>'Twas Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:16:33 +0000, when Jill Bell
><ji...@bellsbarn.demon.co.uk> enriched all our lives with these words:
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>8<---S-N-I-P--->8
>
>> in our small 6x8 pond we
>>still get frogs toads, smooth and great crested newts, dragonflies,
>>damselflies and chasers, waterboatmen and pondskaters - to name but a
>>few.
>
> We get a pesky kitten in Mrs Taz's Pond of Certain Death
>(tally to date 3 dead fish)
He's probably a Turkish swimming cat - you did say Jasper Plant Trasher
was ginger and white, didn't you?
Jill
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cormaic
<ji...@bellsbarn.demon.co.uk> enriched all our lives with these words:
>He's probably a Turkish swimming cat - you did say Jasper Plant Trasher
>was ginger and white, didn't you?
>
Damn! And there's me hoping he was a Lancastrian short-lived
moggy. :~)
The little git has discovered bulbs and, now that the
leaf-chasing-and-crashing-into-plants season is drawing to a close,
he's redirecting his energies into digging.
Stupid kitten! First he thought he was a fish, now he thinks
he's a mole. The vet says it's because he's missing one of his
danglers.
Kay Easton
<cor...@NOSPAMTODAYTHANKStmac.clara.net> writes
>'Twas Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:28:50 +0000, when Jill Bell
><ji...@bellsbarn.demon.co.uk> enriched all our lives with these words:
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>>He's probably a Turkish swimming cat - you did say Jasper Plant Trasher
>>was ginger and white, didn't you?
>>
> Damn! And there's me hoping he was a Lancastrian short-lived
>moggy. :~)
I thought that was a fairly accurate description of all cats who have
ever lived with you?
;-)
Jill Bell
>he's a mole. The vet says it's because he's missing one of his
>danglers.
>
when it comes to his 'little operation'. ;-)
Jill
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