me new bigger pond

[Gary Prentice]

15 hours ago, difflock said:

Sigh, I suffered from small pond syndrome last night up at the gun club.

 

What are the symptoms of 'Small Pond Envy'?

 

Can you go for medical enhancement or are there adverts in the back of certain magazine?

[Khriss]

@Gary Prentice i have noticed twitching shoulders and a tendency not to wash- abt every other person who gets on a train with me. K

[MattyF]

I’m guessing this is clay under the surface and self sealing ?
Originally there was a small pond dug for ducks but it would not fill as land drains just quickly emptied it and they could not block them ,so it’s ended up at quite a pathetic size and level to the left and lower is where I was thinking. There was a water course that’s been diverted so I was thinking dig then redivert to it’s original course.

[difflock]

3 hours ago, Gary Prentice said:

What are the symptoms of 'Small Pond Envy'?

 

Can you go for medical enhancement or are there adverts in the back of certain magazine?

You are obviously confusing "small pond syndrome" with big pond envy", a rookie mistake imho.

[Gary Prentice]

17 hours ago, difflock said:

You are obviously confusing "small pond syndrome" with big pond envy", a rookie mistake imho.

I stand corrected

[spandit]

My little pond was just dug into the clay. It filled up in about 5 months (and it's up to 15 foot deep!) but then almost completely drained again over the next 6 months. With all the sediment that was suspended once the rains came again, it sealed itself and has been full now for 15 months, only dropping a few inches over the Summer (do you remember when it wasn't bloody raining?). The line on the island, by the way, is a woven willow fedge.

 

[AJStrees]

10 hours ago, spandit said:

My little pond was just dug into the clay. It filled up in about 5 months (and it's up to 15 foot deep!) but then almost completely drained again over the next 6 months. With all the sediment that was suspended once the rains came again, it sealed itself and has been full now for 15 months, only dropping a few inches over the Summer (do you remember when it wasn't bloody raining?). The line on the island, by the way, is a woven willow fedge.

 

Very nice. What's the wildlife activity like with your new pond?

[AJStrees]

On 05/03/2020 at 21:38, Matthew Storrs said:

I’ve dug these few small ponds recently with a 3 tonner- it did it ok- there were some pretty massive boulder which I used to shore up the sides as they were tending to migrate into the water. One of them was filling up quicker than I could dig it! 

 
 

the last pic of the pond has sine been extended out laterally to make it less doughnut shaped.

Very  nice pond there mate. 

[spandit]

5 minutes ago, AJStrees said:

Very nice. What's the wildlife activity like with your new pond?

Thanks. Got plenty of invertebrates (smooth newts, frogs) but the heron comes around and there are a couple of ducks who are often on it, so I expect they're tucking in. Lots of insect life which attracts swallows (or swifts, or possible martins) which are amazing to watch. We've been seeing a barn owl hunting in the field too and I expect there are plenty of voles in the banks where they've collapsed (as they're supposed to). No fish yet but I expect they'll find their way in eventually, unless them coming in on ducks' feet is a myth.

[AJStrees]

6 minutes ago, spandit said:

Thanks. Got plenty of invertebrates (smooth newts, frogs) but the heron comes around and there are a couple of ducks who are often on it, so I expect they're tucking in. Lots of insect life which attracts swallows (or swifts, or possible martins) which are amazing to watch. We've been seeing a barn owl hunting in the field too and I expect there are plenty of voles in the banks where they've collapsed (as they're supposed to). No fish yet but I expect they'll find their way in eventually, unless them coming in on ducks' feet is a myth.

You've actually got frogs. That's good news. Sounds like its making a difference to the biodiversity. Great project.