HORFIELD COMMON WILDLIFE POND UPDATE

The pond is flourishing! As of April, we're seeing frogspawn, newts and even the calls of toads, so it's wonderful to see that the work restoring the pond has been so successful already!

Hedgelaying
Joe Aslett and his team, from Parks, have been really kind in undertaking the hedgelaying of the bush to the right of the pond. This lets in more light to the pond, as well as creating a more dense hedge that is great for wildlife. Thank you to them for supporting us with your time, skills and support with extra saplings!
We had previously planned for this to be a volunteer activity but due to time constraints and snow, we had to plunge ahead. More hedgelaying of other areas will be arranged in future instead.
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Sign
We have put up a rope and sign to please stay off the mud banks for now, to allow them to recover further.
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