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Duck weed and frogs
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message into the pond. Right opposite me the fields seem to rotate around wheat, sugar beet, fodder beans and barley. My crops from there tend to be rabbits, wood pigeons and the occasional squirrel. I've been eyeing the rookery too, but last year they were culled right back, so I shall leave them alone. We should be seeing the first problems with the woodies anytime, after the horrendous weather the rst of the fields dried enough to be ploughed and drilled so wheat sprouts are likely to be high on the diet list for the woodies and woody pie on mine! .. You might be surprised at some of the things that go on my plate - try http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/fungi/dinner4a.jpg (About 25 KB - there's a better pic in the same directory - dinner4.jpg - about 175 KB) I 'weed' the farmer's beet and/or beans and come away with fat hen and various oraches, and black nightshade berries (from which I make a sort-of blueberry pie filling - nightshade pie, anyone?) Got to say I'm impressed I get a few puffballs and field shrooms on the plate but thats a veritable smorgasbord we had a lot of birch blown down a combination of the moss being sodden and gales and I have a pack of shittake spawn and a drill so we stand a chance of a crop come autumn Common Koi and Grass Carp do eat duckweed and I did a little research and found freshwater shrimp also do . The shrimp will eat anything, but you'd need a lot of them. More the merrier ready for introducing fish the invertebrate levels are quite good I wouldn't mind adding in mayfly but as the PH is very low( Mossland) I doubt they would thrive Don't they prefer running water? Yep they grow in high densities on running but they do thrive in spring fed ponds as well, always found a goodly number in blanket weed along with boatmen froglets fish fry and nymphs If you have bog myrtle amongst the moss, it makes a very good green tea - only don't use too much - much less of it than you would use tealeaves. It's supposed to be good for the nerves. I 'll have to have a look see I could do with calming down a touch. We only seem to have mallard here. The odd skein of geese passes over, but I've never known them to visit. The Guns get terribly excited about the duck, but not very many of them have clue. In my youth I used to go wildfowling on the Blackwater Estuary, though more time was spent in conservation of nesting areas than with the artillery. (9-Bore Joe Manton SB percussion) Cristamighty I hope you had a tin hat to go with a cannon like that I'll stick with my trusty Beretta 302 12 b more than enough lead (er I mean non-toxic shot occifer) for me I've had the priviledge of letting off a few bigger bore blackpowder pieces at gamefairs and the like, happily the hair has now grown back DerekW |
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