If you have room in your garden a well designed pond will be a haven for birds and wildlife and will attract a wide variety of unusual visitors.
A pond in your garden will benefit birds in a number of ways:
provides clean oxygenated water for birds to drink
provides a safe, accessible place for them to bathe,
attracts insects and other invertebrates which will provide a natural food source for birds
may attract water loving birds such as kingfishers and herons.
A well designed pond is a complex habitat full of algae and plants, scavengers, predators, herbivores, decomposers and parasites. Some species will live their whole life in the pond such as water snails, whereas others, such as pond skaters, will use it for only part of the time.
A pond will provide essential drinking and bathing water for birds and mammals and if you plant a range of plant species around the edge you will encourage an even greater diversity of wildlife.
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