{"id":4090,"date":"2016-02-02T15:34:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2016-02-05T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T15:50:42","slug":"working-in-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/working-in-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Working in the Pond …"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Desilting<\/a>
Desilting the pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today we all put on waders and got into cold muddy water.<\/p>\n

I shovelled silt into an ingenious floating bucket system: the bucket had holes in the bottom to let the water out but it seemed to keep most of the mud in. It was possible to scoop to a depth most of the length of the shovel. Then I towed the silt bucket to the shore (much easier than carrying it) to empty it.<\/p>\n

\"Dragging<\/a>
Dragging the silt bucket to land<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also completed the coppicing of the Willow in the background of the photo. It was a stout stump, very dry and hard, and it was quite a task with a small Silkie saw, but better than using a blunt bowsaw!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the others set about cutting the encroaching Reeds and pulling out a fair number of their long white rhizomes that spread out in the mud.\u00a0 We tried to spare the floating pondweeds, starwort and water mint.<\/p>\n

\"Reed-cutting<\/a>
Reed-cutting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A group of Great Tits made a din mobbing a Magpie; and a little later, several Jays spent a while screeching while a pair of Magpies chattered back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we all put on waders and got into cold muddy water. I shovelled silt into an ingenious floating bucket system: the bucket had holes in the bottom to let the water out but it seemed to keep most of the mud in. It was possible to scoop to a depth most of the length … Continue reading Working in the Pond …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[951,16,950,952],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","tag-desilting","tag-gunnersbury-triangle-nature-reserve","tag-pond-management","tag-silt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}