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 Start of the day, group photo (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin)
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 A heron hunting in the ponds in the morning (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin).
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 Heron catches goldfish! (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin)
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 Pond life on display. (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin)
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 Pond wildlife on display (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin).
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 Morning work to remove the clumps of rush and willows from the stream. (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin)
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 Scything the bank. (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin)
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 Scything (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin).
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 Dam reinforcement using the rush clumps. (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin)
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 Removal of bulrush from the pond. (photo credit: Nikolai Lissin)
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 Water scorpion, photo courtesy of Friends of Milham Ford (https://fomfnp.weebly.com/)
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 photo courtesy of Friends of Milham Ford (https://fomfnp.weebly.com/)
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 photo courtesy of Friends of Milham Ford (https://fomfnp.weebly.com/)
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 photo courtesy of Friends of Milham Ford (https://fomfnp.weebly.com/)
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 Freshly constructed dam in the stream - photo courtesy of Friends of Milham Ford (https://fomfnp.weebly.com/)
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 Milham Ford resident - photo courtesy of Friends of Milham Ford (https://fomfnp.weebly.com/)
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 Clearing the rush from the stream - photo courtesy of Friends of Milham Ford (https://fomfnp.weebly.com/)
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 The rare greater water parsnip - photo courtesy of Friends of Milham Ford (https://fomfnp.weebly.com/)
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 The dam, to the left, just upstream from the top bridge.
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 The dam
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 We excavated rush and clay from the upstream sections to bolster and pack down the dam's timber cross pieces
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 Today's task leader (thanks to Mathew Beesley)
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 Here's what the regrowth looked like in August (thanks to Heather Banyard)
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 Here's the regrowth on the improvised dam later on in August (thanks to Heather Banyard)
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 One of the ponds at Milham Ford Nature Park (courtesy of FOMFNP)
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 Volunteers digging out rushes and moving them to dam the damaged outflow from the final pond (courtesy of FOMFNP)
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 Courtesy of FOMFNP
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 pondlife (courtesy of FOMFNP)
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 Finished dam.
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 Courtesy of FOMFNP
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 Piles of Elodea pulled from pond 1
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 Clearing water horsetail to make room for water parsnip and dragonflies
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 Water parsnip
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 Great Willowherb
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 Water lilies on one of the ponds
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 The bee bank we made on our visit in May.
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 The giant heap of Great Willowhwerb and Michelmas Daisies
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 Bee wall builders
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 Clearing some of the vegetation in and around the Milham Ford ponds
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 We're also clearing some dogwood ...
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 Some local residents - Smooth Newts (Lissotriton vulgaris)
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 A Dragonfly larva
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