OK she’s gone back inside; Now tadpoles or plants? -the clay is from where I dug a hole to plant
Gypseywort & Marsh Bedstraw, the Marsh Cinquefoil is beside the female duck but just showing the odd bud,
it flowers later in the year.

I’ll sift around the edges & see what I can find, the Bog Bean beside the drake is threatening
to get left high & dry, flower buds are just emerging.

A bit of Brooklime? - Flag Iris & Meadow Sweet above.

Something good down here.

From above showing how the pond level has dropped 15” over the last month. I've planted
a small patch of one of the water Crow Foot family just this side of the Marsh Marigold.
It will be below 15" of water when it rains hard so I may have to form some kind of floating platform
with sufficient soil in it to allow the Crow Foot to grow & spread

A nice patch of Water Starwort, she’s swimming towards wild Water Cress under the edge
& the margins are lined in Water Mint just emerging

I've just discovered some Juncus articulatus or Jointed Rush for Toad close to where I planted
the Gypseywort, I didn’t even know I’d collected it, unless it’s found its own way here,
or came in as seed on my boots, I’ve put a cane by it so I don’t lose it while it’s still small.
The one favour the ducks did was clear the pond of green algae