Iris pseudacorus and iris laevigata

thats fabulous Wagger, very pretty

A beautiful photo Wagger, love the water irises!

These really "lift" your pond area....lovely

Thank you, they're such lovely flowers. They are just sitting in this old tank after I had to rescue them from my pond when the ducks nested next to it - they and the ducklings were eating absolutely everything in spite of being fed loads of duck food by me!

Wagger...we had nesting ducks last year,and the pond was only a month old.Noticed they were eating the then new rushes,marsh marigolds etc as well as the grain we were feeding them.So if they return this year,apparently we can expect more of the same.?

Nice photo Wagger. Bonkers, they have got to be worth it.

Yes Toto...the female nested in the overgrown area at the bottom of the garden,and to see her emerge with 12 ducklings in tow was priceless ! Heres hoping she returns !

The trouble is - what happens next. The first time this duck nested here she had seven ducklings, left with them when they were about three days old and five days later she was back - alone. Had another clutch, stayed a few days and left again - back alone within a week. So the next year once she was sitting, we netted off the pond area so she couldn't leave and she raised thirteen ducklings right through to take-off. It wrecked that part of the garden but just couldn't let her lose them again - and had the fun of watching them grow, practice taking off, first flights, the lot. The drake visited every day while all this was going on. That was when I removed most of the irises.
Came for their first visit last weekend but only stayed for half an hour.

Thanks for this Wagger you did so well to help her.Hope she returns again this year.! Will do the same as you if necessary..lots of our pond plants are still in baskets so can easily be put out of the way.Enough pond weed etc now to sustain a couple of hungry ducks and their young ! lol

They look lovely by the water.

your pond looks so natural looking Well done with the ducklings.