“I’m pleased to say the pond restoration work at Mote farm is now complete. The contractors have done a really wonderful job in a very short space of time. It’s opened up the aquatic habitat and really will attract the attentions of wildfowl, aquatic invertebrates, newts and amphibians. I have some volunteers who carry out biodiversity surveys for me so I will get one of them on the case to do some surveys there this season and each year going forward so we can really see the ecological benefits developing as the pond starts to re-establish itself.
The contractors have spread all the silt very thinly over the adjacent grassland as tidily as is possible with mud. This will grass over really quickly and you’ll never know it’s been there before too long.”