One swan mussel. No idea where it came from because we haven’t put any in, but a welcome sight: swan mussels are native and good for the water quality. We hope there are more but they are quite shy, normally hiding in the mud at the bottom.
Category: Other animals
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Not everything is dormant during winter
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These freshwater shrimp are having fun wriggling around upside down on the underside of the ice in the old pond.
We know: they’re not actually shrimp and probably not the native Gammarus pulex but rather the interloper Crangonyx pseudogracilis.
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It’s not just owls!
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The three barn It’s not just owls! Summer is a great time of year for the insects too
Broad Bodied Chaser Dragonfly 
White Tailed Bumble Bee 
Comma Butterfly 
Common Green Grasshopper 
Common Green Grasshopper 
Dock Bugs 
Drone Fly 
Nursery Web Spider 
Sloe Bug
