Pictures of LCV: Waterways
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| Description: | If marginal plants like reedmace are allowed to completely fill a shallow pond, they will turn it into swampy marshland, and will make it less attractive to desirable aquatic wildlife. Here we are digging up, and raking out plants to give an area of clear water. Pond work is a smelly task that you either love or hate! |
| Work site: | Vogrie Country Park |
| Photo credit: | David Monaghan |
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| Description: | Here we are pulling fallen trees out of a pond to open it up to daylight and encourage plants to colonise it. |
| Work site: | Puddock Wood |
| Photo credit: | David Monaghan |
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| Description: | This shallow pond at Aberlady was made to encourage wading birds. Within a few years, a clump of reedmace had colonised one side of the pond and was rapidly spreading across it. We now return regularly to keep the plants under control and maintain the open water. |
| Work site: | Aberlady Bay |
| Photo credit: | David Monaghan |
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