What does your pond look like ... Today?

[j.w]

Been making an effort to get down to the ponds at least once a week. Still not able to do much but the bog on the koi pond had disappeared under all the watercress that wintered over. Pulled half of it before I thought to take pictures. The stock tank bog on the lily and goldfish pond is covered! Going to just leave that one alone. View attachment 157276View attachment 157277View attachment 157278

Well that plant is way hardy!

 

[addy1]

Well that plant is way hardy!

And healthy!

 

[texmaster]

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Bogbean and lots of frogs.

 

[Moni_Pond]

Bogbean and lots of frogs.

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Wow! Amazing photos and beautiful pond!

 

[addy1]

Not a pond, but the pond deck. Mom and dad chipped away at the soffit wood, made a home. It will be blocked after they fly. A lot of poo on the deck. Mom or dad

Babies

 

[j.w]

Awwwwww so sweet and happy they get to stay till they grow and then go

 

[Mgessert]

First water lily of the season.

 

[mrsclem]

My beautiful watercress in my stock tank bog just emptied half the pond! It blocked the outflow pipe. Will refill a d thin bog tomorrow

 

[addy1]

My beautiful watercress in my stock tank bog just emptied half the pond! It blocked the outflow pipe. Will refill a d thin bog tomorrow

I had a apple do that, blocked a out flow, poof water gone.

 

[YShahar]

Here are a couple of recent photos from around the pond.

 

[j.w]

@YShahar everything is so pretty at your pond and is that a kookaburra and is he/she sitting in an old gum tree?

 

[YShahar]

@YShahar everything is so pretty at your pond and is that a kookaburra and is he/she sitting in an old gum tree?

Alas, we don't have kookaburras. That critter is the beautiful, but evil, kingfisher that haunts my pond. I actually got a photo of him (or her) snagging one of the smaller shubunkins that were born in the pond. The photo was too blurry to see much, but it was clear the fish was a shubunkin.

I also got a photo yesterday of a cuckoo bird importuning its adopted (or should I say hoodwinked) parents for food. The parents were hooded crows, and the cuckoo was pretty much full grown. Pretty bird, but sneaky.

 

[addy1]

Love that lily! Looks purple/lilac. Great pictures!

 

[YShahar]

Love that lily! Looks purple/lilac.

That one is much smaller than the others, and blooms only very rarely. I'm going to try adding some Osmocote to its container to see if that helps. It's a pretty thing! The regular pink one bloomed a bit even during the winter, though everything was in slow motion.