New pond

 Bore da Pawb,

Its certainly had a feel of proper autumn with chilly mornings and warm afternoons.

Its been such a full on week I couldn't think what to write about, but weighing up the days its the new pond at Pembrey Burrows LNR that is probably the highlight, well there was a river that disappeared but maybe I'll save that for another post

After far too long a wait, we have finally managed to dig a new pond in the most recent area to be fenced off, now that in itself is all relative as the fence was put in at least two winters ago!

Contractors including a UXO specialist arrived on site at 9:30am, we hit water at around 11:00am after excavating to around 1.7m. We didn't hit anything else either.

If I'm honest I think this will be a seasonal pond but as its primary purpose is to provide drinking water for cattle that's not an issue, the sides of the pond will certainly provide nice sandy habitat for invertebrates, as will the now landscaped area where the arisings from the pond were placed

Since the perimeter fence has been vandalised the contractors will return in the coming weeks to install extra gates and secure the field ready for cattle, at the same time they will replace around 100 fence posts on other fields

As the winter water levels rise the pond will fill and hold water to allow winter grazing.

The arisings have been landscaped and will provide additional pen sand habitat for invertebrates