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Well here is such a pond where that smile was Friday of animal
and plant life in
and around the water for a thing
that we say are the reasons that all young
and children are familiar Well they kept pale
as the causes of flowering and printing part of the cat tail
and here are some durable water level.
I don't think there's anything prettier in nature than a lovely Whitewater all of
famous French authors did a whole series of wonderful pictures of such are flowers
and the pun well is what jars smaller they're yellow mostly
but very attractive
and there are all sorts of the flowers and the uprooting crowd
that you find in the swamps
that I imagine you might find thirty species of all kinds around the pundits
nearest around home.
We find the soles and bones set
and job high weed
and also we find a mint and Valeri and
that is used as a a medicine to reduce the very least it used to be by the old
fashioned home remedy cookers
and we find many varieties of the piously family including this water Ham are here
to weigh the bees have been a true.
And here we have one of the while I risk that we often find in our pond
and a snail is walking down the flower itself because the snail
has no housing problem. Wherever it goes.
It carries its house on its back which is a good idea. These crowded days.
Now if you look at the water itself you may see something
that looks like a green gum Well that isn't scar McCall That is the plant life.
Millions
and millions are the small plants we call algae as a matter of fact this is the
simplest kind of plants along with the marshes.
It's a single cell simplest form of plant life that we know.
And here it is magnified several hundreds of times its level square
that you see there is a single cell and they join together in a long thread.
Now these are very important they support
or animal life in the long run they have a green coloring matter
that produces oxygen.
When the sunlight falls upon these plants
and oxygen of course is needed in the water so that the animals
that live in the water can breathe.
This is the way it looks
when you gaze at it yourself because under the microscope it looks entirely
different.
And here is some of the protozoa the single celled microscopic forms of animal life
very many of them an odd shape to that called Centaur
that particular species
and here's another one of the protos although there are hundreds of species in any
Pistone for. Pond water that you might take up
and put on your microscope in this fashion.
And here is not to look a millionaire is that a little a protozoan
that I told you furnish is a sparkling water
when it's there by the millions This is another type called a helium Zoller Oh I
couldn't begin to name all the different kinds of problems are
that you will find as I say in a single teaspoon full of water.
This is an amoeba any high school student recognise
that as a great thing it powerfully thought under a microscope.
Now at this point it's very difficult to tell a plant from the animals Now these
are plants that that is a definite
and that's another Desmond even the scientists have to will take a good luck
creature which is a planet in which is the animal when they life is a simple
and primitive where we're back on the surface.
Now we have these little really gave bugs as skating around on the surface they go
around the impacts of this big board
and a frog picks up its head for a dozen different different
species of frog probably in a pond nearest your home.
Very good swimmers to take you out a lesson in grace in swimming just watch any
frog
and these are cards are tadpoles in all progs lay their eggs
and gelatinous masses in the water
and the tadpoles had a child with those tails that disappear.
There's a whole hoard of the tadpoles just out of the finally
that tail disappears and the legs appear and the tadpole becomes a prod
and then I have to watch out because the wild duck like this size
that young ones
that might eat some of the smaller tadpoles out to a great deal of the vegetable
matter that floats about. That pine.
More vegetable matter than fishing are frogs matter.
Those things
and the insects above a cause such as there's this lovely dragon fly sometimes call
a darning needle it doesn't dial up anybody's ears it's really beneficial it eats
mosquitoes as a matter of fact among other insects
and in the reeds we see a mass of floating vegetation
and it looks suspicious so we pull apart a tarp and we find
that it's a a nest of some marsh birds
and the bird has covered up the nest at least the eggs.
Well here it is it's agreed
that the little green sometimes color dad check at the diving board somewhat like a
duck pretty well Carol flies there I say
I'm here among the cat tails is a nest of another bird
or it's a bunting one of the bunting
and the snake urn other inhabitant of the pond area
but now be afraid it's not a dangerous snake This is called the colored adder A D R.
And there's a toad toad is a first cousin of the frog and now prefers to live.
Most of its life on dry land and has a reference going on here is a climbing fraud.
If you look closely you'll see
that it has a little suction pads at the tips of its toes these we call the
spring peepers one we hear them in the March and April in the evening out
and of course there are thoughts of the reeds was great.
Frag might is read that grows in abundance around upon.
I think the something coming there. This grievous hurt it covers up its nest time.
Takes it on the run.
There's a lizard going into the water to the home why shiz are littered
with a hedgehog.
Well I had a hog is not a duck or a face but it can swim
and evidently it has business across the pond
all the adder is in its path which one will give way
out or is going to make the first blush.
But the hedgehog is not taking any bluffs today pretty well protected you know by
its quill so they a little snake moves off
of God snakes can swim very well
and they can glide along the A bottom of the pond to what it costs not indefinitely
they have to have their debris.
Well leave just a few are the plants and the animals
and the a wonderful forms of microscopic life
that you can find in any plant in your neighborhood. It's wonderful.
I hope you'll look into it someday.