Change Of Plan

[Wildfisher]

Well yesterday I checked out the ponds I had marked for a bit of coarse fishing and could not even see them far less get near them. I sent up the drone and it looks like the water lilies have made fishing impractical and will eventually join up. Time for a change of plan I think. If  try to fish there I'll never be seen again, sod that.

[IanR]

Shame about the (lack of) fishinng. Belting photo though 

[Bobfly]

Looks like a "successional wonderland" ! 😃

[Wildfisher]

Looks like a "successional wonderland" ! 😃

When I was a lad it was open almost all the way round. It is slowly filling in and transforming into a swamp.

[Bobfly]

Open previously then waterplant colonised, then gradual organic build up, then to willow encroachment, then alders as taller shrubs dry the site some more, giving alder carr then alder/birch, then you can walk anywhere on site. Not too many decades from now. Rich and dynamic succession in action. 🙂

[Wildfisher]

Fascinating to see and only possible for those of us who have been around for a while, yet even one lifespan is not enough to see it all. 

[Its Me]

Midge city likely.

[Wildfisher]

Midge city likely.

Not just midgies, that area is mosquito central.