#NaPoWriMo2024 #Day16 #Ponddipping

 

Pond dipping, Tyland Barn

 

Wide round bowl,

net, small white containers

and a teaspoon.

Anna says the later

is ‘a serious bit of

scientific kit’.

Kneel, swish the

net through the water

figure of eight motion.

Anna says ‘not too 

deeply or you’ll end up

with a net full of silt’.

Kneeling is fine,

getting up again?

I’m grateful for the ropes!

I’ve caught a 

couple of water beetles 

with my science-y spoon.

Hail halts play,

my quarry released,

back into the pond.

I ponder my bigger pond 

a stakeholder map 

to dip for young people.