The photo above shows the pond at New Ferry Butterfly Park, with a very low water-level because of a leak. Yesterday Tim, Steve and Pete stripped the edge vegetation and moved it to the ditch, for re-planting later. They also took the opportunity to remove some unwelcome colonists - willow, reedmace and sweet flag. The picture below shows them hard at work.
A group of volunteers from Scottish Power arrived this morning to empty the pond, remove the old liner and install a new one! We are immensely grateful for their help on this large task. No doubt the newts, water boatmen, pond snails, dragonflies, caddis flies and all the other minibeasts of the pond will also be happy to have their home back to its normal size once the pond is re-filled.
More pictures coming soon!
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