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1st: Enjoying the land The dogs are certainly enjoying our changing landscape!!! And in the first video, Roxy (grandmother that she is) is the one leading the chase!!! We have been dry for two/ three days now and so pond filling progress has slowed a little, although we are happy to report that our stream is still running into Nick's ponds and both ponds seven and nine have much of their bottoms covered now, purely from ground water! In exciting news, we spied more water beetles in Tree Pond this evening - two different types, one black and a good half inch long and the other a few mms long and like a mini boatman. The large black ones were very active, swimming on the surface before diving down into the depths. The first beetles we saw in here on 24th were different again, they very small and brown and crawling along the grass beneath the surface. We cannot begin to imagine how much life will find its way in as soon as we start to get warmer weather and longer days. The starlings are around in huge numbers at the moment, we saw what must have been well over 1000 in John's field this morning and we caught lots on the trail cam at the bottom of Goat field yesterday and today, we spied evidence of all their probing in the grass. Just look at all those holes.   |