Puddle Census

A hand-dug garden pond, two metres by one and a half, and everything that found it.

2026

  1. Fourteen empty skins on the iris stems: counting dragonfly exuviae
  2. Newt eggs folded into the water forget-me-not
  3. Spawn on the 9th of March, nine days earlier than last year

2025

  1. Autumn leaves and the net I decided not to use
  2. Blanket weed, a cane and a bale of barley straw

2024

  1. Digging the pond: shelves, a liner and eleven barrowloads of clay