March 2006 saw us begin a wildlife pond for a client who wanted to introduce a water feature into the field that he had recently purchased. The client was also interested in using the excavated earth to build a curved earth mound.
The pond is teardrop shaped with a large bird beach and an area of bog planting. We constructed the pond with marginal shelves and used a pre-planted coir log to build a barrier between the pond and bog area.

Ducks and moorhens are regular visitors along with scores of dragonflies and damselflies hatching each year. Every year since creation it has broad bodied chaser dragonflies.

Digging out the hole.	Once we had excavated the hole we put in a layer of sand to protect the liner.
The pond was was lined with underlay and then a butyl liner. It took about 3 days to fill!	When the coir logs were first installed, the plants were just starting to grow.
	The finished pond provides a lovely place to sit and enjoy the dragonfiles.