Night-time Pond Visit {Pond Study: Week 12}

This week we carried out a spring night-time pond visit…and it was glorious! Ponds at night can be magical, offering a unique and tranquil view, often enhanced by the nocturnal activity of aquatic creatures and the visual appeal of a moonlit sky reflecting on the water. Many pond creatures are more active after dark, creating a different kind of life to observe. However, other pond inhabitants like fish enter a rest state. Without daylight activities and wind, ponds are often calmer at night, making reflections clearer and movements more serene.

Find out more! If you’d like to know more about why we decided to do a year long pond study, this is the post for you!

Read this!  If you’d like to read about the day we assessed the pond and planned out our learning.

 I took the children up to the pond one evening and it was so quiet and peaceful apart from the geese who stole away the show with their chatting and antics. 

Read More! Last week we learnt all about the variety of pond birds in the UK

Night-time Pond Visit

Here is the story of our pond this week, captured in the peace of the sun setting:

Read more!  You can find our study of pond fauna here

This is a great point to read about when we helped an injured duck!

Read about our very own pond ecosystem as well as our examination of the pond water

Pond pollution is one thing that would affect the number and variety of plants and trees in our UK pond. Read about it here and see what we found.

Click here to read about the animals and plants we have found around our pond

Read More! I thought I’d direct you to our Ash Tree Study which we began right at the start of our pond study and its extension Ash Tree and Lichen

Fancy doing some pond art? Read here for our bark rubbings and leave hammering

Seconds later, in the midst of some very noisy honking, they flew up to a nearby tree to roost.

We’ll definitely be going again at night-time, maybe even a little later.  Everything was so harmonious and at peace.