Pond Dipping at Winterley Pool

Having had a training session pond dipping at Hall o'the Heath Farm we moved on to the real task at Winterley Pool.  We were provided access to areas not normally open to the public.  The investigation session led by Julie Molyneux took place in the early evening of 31st July 2012.

 Julie, Ron, Mick and Barry.

 

Colin's report on the evening:

“Julie thought that the match pool at the back was likely to be the best so we started there.  After just a few dips we had a good variety of pond life to identify.  With much checking of identification guides we listed the following:-

• three-spined stickleback
• leech
• water louse
• banded demoiselle damselfly nymph
• azure blue damselfly nymph
• smaller dycistid beetle sp.
• caddisfly larva in a stick case
• flat valve snail
• spire shell snail sp
• mayfly sp

 Several dips around the heavily fished specimen pool were disappointing with nothing of note being netted.

 

We also met the water bailiff who gave us up-to-date information on the fish life of the pool.”