It’s that time of year when ponds appear in places where they shouldn’t be. This particular one is preventing us from visiting Potter’s Field.
Midnight Mutts: Not a Pond
It’s that time of year when ponds appear in places where they shouldn’t be. This particular one is preventing us from visiting Potter’s Field.
Travels with Choppy 
What is the cause of ponding? Is it poor drainage after heavy rains? in a country or state as big as yours, I guess these go unnoticed. In my lil red dot, we will have netizens complaining to the National Environment Agency to drain it or treat it to prevent mosquito (dengue, malaria etc) from breeding. In your photo, I would not know that it was not there before and would think it formed part of the landscape – picturesque with a pond or lake. Maybe the ducks will come and it becomes a natural landscape after 🙂
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The pond is actually a drainage pond for our neighborhood, with a river behind it. It’s just in a semi-natural state and the floods are natural this time of year. It makes for great soil for Paul’s garden, which is in a part of the yard which floods every spring. So we aren’t complaining at all about the floods! It does help that we’re far enough north not to have most of the truly awful mosquito-borne diseases (though we have plenty of mosquitoes).
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I would have thought mosquitoes cannot thrive in the cold. I guess it is the summer months. Ours in the tropics are dangerous and deadly. We have had people dying from dengue hemorrhagic fever caused by choked drains or liners on flower pots or stagnant water from plastic containers or pet bottles that get littered. It is sad really as young and old not spared. So during our hotter months in June to August our National Environment Agency will field agents to check out private houses to ensure no choked gutters or stagnant water in flowerpot liners to prevent mosquito breeding sites.
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I know they do the same down in the Florida Keys with the patrols, where the mosquitoes have all those bad diseases. We just have mosquitoes in the summer, though they are AWFUL when we have them.
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It’s not a vernal pool?
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I guess it might be considered such – it will be mostly gone in a couple months in time for planting. Maybe sooner.
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If it was summer up there you could take a nice swim in the temporary pond made by mother nature. Even I wouldn’t attempt it this time of year.
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I bet Choppy would enjoy it now – I have to keep her out of them, no matter how cold it is.
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Would be a great Eagle Scout project to build a board walk. 🥇
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Wow, it’s like a crop circle
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It is, isn’t it? I had never thought of it that way.
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Any peepers in there? 🙂
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Thank you!
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That is one heck of a pond !!!
So interesting that they just pop up ….
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It is – and it will be gone soon.
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