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Wee Pond Project
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Encouraging the creation of lots of messy wee ponds for nature! 🐸💧
Offering free pond workshops for youth groups🐠
Brought to you by the Messy Ecologist 🦋🦫🌿🐝🌷
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weepondproject.bsky.social
Excellent news! www.itv.com/news/anglia/...
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June 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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olefeldt.bsky.social
This new map provides a global view of the distribution of a multitude of aquatic ecosystems, including various wetlands. It's a pretty big step forward, and I look forward to seeing how it will be used e.g. to study wetland greenhouse gases.

essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2)
Abstract. In recognition of the importance of inland waters, numerous datasets mapping their extents, types, or changes have been created using sources ranging from historical wetland maps to real-tim...
essd.copernicus.org
June 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
weepondproject.bsky.social
Happy #Pride month from the #WeePondProject, we are an inclusive movement for restoring freshwater biodiversity with everyone on board 🌈😊🌈😊
June 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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dunite.bsky.social
@weepondproject.bsky.social I *love* your project! We only have a small yard, but have managed to squeeze in three very wee ponds (unfortunately all raised as it wasn't possible to sink them). Not too messy yet, but hopefully they'll blend in with the overgrown wildflowers in the adjacent beds soon.
A small rectangular pond measuring approximately 80cm x 35cm. It contains a variety of marginal plants: narrow leaved lesser water plantain with small white flowers; pepper grass; broad oval leaves of a bog bean; water forget me not scattered with tiny blue flowers; and a miniature bullrush with tall, thin erect leaves. Feathery fronds of willow moss are growing beneath the water, while the round leaves of frogbit float on the surface. In the foreground is a small hexagonal pond measuring approximately 60cm in diameter. It contains a variety of marginal plants: a miniature bullrush with tall, thin erect leaves; water forget me not scattered with tiny blue flowers; broad oval leaves of a bog bean; pepper grass. Round leaves of frogbit float on the surface of the water. In the background to the rear left of the pond is a tall, cylindrical terracotta pot containing rosemary. Behind that is a raised bed in which a small wisteria and a rose bush are growing. Between the plants is a bee hotel and a pile of pine cones and leaves covered in old slates providing shelter for insects. In the foreground there's a very small circular pond approximately 45cm in diameter, around the edge of which are some marginal plants: a very small brooklime; the tall, linear leaves of a flag iris; elongated green and yellow variegated leaves of a sweet flag; and a water forget me not covered in tiny blue flowers. Behind the pond stand two hexagonal planters containing small acers (Japanese maples); the one on the left has green foliage, while the one on the right has yellow leaves that are fringed in pink. Both are surrounded by blue flowering dog violets and clumps of heath pearlwort covered in absolutely teeny white flowers. A small back yard typical of many properties in northern England. This particular yard has six large raised beds containing an assortment of native wildflowers. At the extreme bottom left is a big garden in which the foliage of water avens is just visible. Next to the small rectangular pond shown in photo 1 are two raised beds: in the first, both magenta bloody cranesbill and blue forget me nots are in flower. In front of that bed is a larger, lower bed in which purple and white spikes of heath woundwort and pompoms of pink thrift can be seen; although the foliage of the devils bit scabious can be seen, it is yet to flower. In the next bed, tall chicory flowers are just coming into bud, while the white umbellifers of valerian and white and yellow of ox eye daisies can be seen. Behind a honeysuckle in an adjacent trough is another bed containing woodland flowers: deep maroon dusky cranesbills and bluebells, which are interspersed with ferns. Standing alone to the rear of the yard is a very large hexagonal planter containing an acer with green foliage, while in the foreground are two smaller hexagonal planters, each of which contains another acer; to the right is one with green foliage, the other with yellow leaves fringed with pink. All of the acers are surrounded by smaller plants; germander speedwell, dog violets and heath pearlwort. Between the two smaller hexagonal planters is the tiny pond shown in photo 3. Interspersed among all of the raised beds and troughs are numerous pots containing a wide variety of plants, including: lavender; rosemary; thyme; sage; borage; a vibernum; ivy; and a small clematis or two. Right in the middle there's a stand from which various birdfeeders are hanging: a general seed feeder; a tray of mealworm; a niger seed feeder for the resident goldfinches; and an old feeder full of scraps of sheeps wool and straw to provide nesting material.
May 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
weepondproject.bsky.social
Well the recent rain in the East of Scotland may have dampened those summer BBQs but they sure helped top up my garden’s Wee Pond 💧🐸🌿 #WeePondProject
June 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
weepondproject.bsky.social
While walking the dog in the drizzle last night this wee frog leapt out of the grass into the road and onto my shoe! If it rains in summer keep your eyes pealed for any frogs and help them off the road! 🐸🐸🐸
May 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
weepondproject.bsky.social
Freshwater habitats are crucial ecosystems which we rely on for ecosystem services as well as for supporting biodiversity they must be protected 💧🐟🦫

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Record number of water sector criminal investigations launched as sewage issues rise
“Water companies have too often gone unpunished” said the environment secretary
www.independent.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
weepondproject.bsky.social
The Wee Pond Project aims to encourage the creation of many more easy small ponds to help freshwater biodiversity, even a wash basin can become a bustling hub for nature! 🐸💧🦆
#messy #weepondproject
May 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
weepondproject.bsky.social
Wee ponds don’t have to be dug in the ground, small plates/pot saucers make important drinking stations for butterflies and hedgehogs! 🦋🦔🦋🦔
#WeePondProject
#Messy #Pond
May 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM