Water Gardening: What kind of wild life do you have living in your pond(s)?, 1 by lego_brickster

lego_brickster wrote:
Jessamine, had I been prepared that year, I certainly would have tried.
It was not until I joined DG that I had heard of using a bubbler to keep a hole in the ice. I'm using one this year, I'll let you know how it goes!

BTW, the pond that froze over is a naturalized one. It's just mounded dirt to absorb the huge amount of mountain run-off. It's about 150 feet in diameter, and has no liner. The bass that live in there were stocked by the prior owner. I don't keep ornamental fish in it. I'm saving those for some much smaller ornamental ponds I have been building. I may someday introduce koi to the big pond, but only after I have more experience.

The picture looks pretty barren. We've only been here a short time, but we're slowly landscaping the whole 18 acres. You can just make out one of the gulls on the pond. The picture was taken from our front window.

Oh, I forgot about the time we had 30 deer tromping around the pond. That was cool too!