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Suffolk Ponds and Water Life
West Stowe: Pond at 805 713

As you travel along the road from the A1101 to West Stowe, you are likely to miss this pond, though it's quite visible from the road if you know where to look! It's on the left hand side, but is well overgrown and barely obvious from the road.

I visited it on Saturday 9th November 2002. This is a pond in dire need of restoration. Water level was low and the pond is silted up with leaf later and other debris. It's barely accessible as there's sever danger of sinking into the mud!

However on a quick dip I found


A surprise, this last one. They normally like fast, clear chalk streams. True, there was not much of anything in the sample I took, but quite clear was one tiny gammarus and where there are babies, there must be adults!

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Diary

April 2005
Visited again in late April. The pond is dense black, around the edges, with tadpoles. A quick dip with a lagre polythene bag collected hundreds. I cannot recall ever seeing a denser population!
June 2005
As well as the tadpoles (still quite underdeveloped) there is plenty of daphnia in the pond.

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