{"id":707,"date":"2025-11-04T17:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=707"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:09:33","slug":"the-reality-of-wildlife-ponding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"The Reality of Wildlife Ponding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ponding: The Reality of Wildlife Ponding\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oNe9FFlJbIQ?list=PLBCl5vD6a8-9DVJzUz2nhueNyOK7jsTmt\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>My wildlife pond needed a little dredging, which is a task normally done after draining the water first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I didn\u2019t want to disturb the pond\u2019s countless tiny inhabitants any more than strictly necessary, so I decided to skip the draining. Instead, my shovel and I waited for a dry spell when the water level dropped, and we ventured in knee-deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My shovel &amp; I are happy to report that manual wet dredging is perfectly doable. In fact, it\u2019s a delightful workout, as long as you maintain perfect posture and lift with your thighs at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because if you don\u2019t, you\u2019re gonna throw out your back, which is really not something you want happening while you\u2019re standing in a perfectly drownable body of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, go find out what your pelvic floor is and be mindful of it when you\u2019re shovelling wet pond muck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh and if you\u2019re going to do this, you probably shouldn\u2019t fear your pond creatures too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, ponding is definitely not like any regular gardening and when suspicious-looking critters end up on your shovel, you\u2019re gonna have to gently pick them up and return them to the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because a pond creature is not a bug but a feature&#x1f49c;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u010ce se na dnu ribnika nabere preve\u010d mulja, se to obi\u010dajno re\u0161uje tako, da najprej iz ribnika izpustimo vodo, nato pa vanj spustimo bager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A kak\u0161en bager neki \u2013 tega bom morda imela neko\u010d nekega dne, ko bom velika. Meni niti ideja praznjenja ni bila kaj prida v\u0161e\u010d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moj mladi ribni\u010dek je namre\u010d vzelo za svojega ne\u0161teto malih bitjec, ki sem jih hotela obvarovati pred \u010disto prehudimi pretresi. Zato sem po\u010dakala na malce su\u0161e, da je vodostaj upadel, in zabredla do kolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, jaz in moja lopata radostno potrjujeva, da je tudi \u00bbro\u010dno mokro \u010di\u0161\u010denje\u00ab ribnika povsem izvedljivo. V bistvu je odli\u010dna telovadba, \u010de lepo pazi\u0161 na dr\u017eo in pridno dviga\u0161 s stegenskimi mi\u0161icami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sicer si lahko izpahne\u0161 kri\u017e, kar zna biti izrazito neposre\u010dena ideja, ko stoji\u0161 sredi vode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Koristen nasvet je tudi to, da pri dvigovanju pazi, kaj dela tvoje medeni\u010dno dno, in tvoje telo hvale\u017eno ti bo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In pa \u0161e nekaj je treba vedeti. Ko vihti\u0161 lopato po ribniku, ho\u010de\u0161-no\u010de\u0161 izbeza\u0161 na plano prenekaterega ribni\u0161kega prebivalca. In ker velik dele\u017e ribni\u0161kega \u017eivlja obstaja v razponu od rahlo stra\u0161ljivega do naravnost grozljivega, je obvladovanje strahu skorajda nujna ve\u0161\u010dina za uspe\u0161no ribnikarjenje. Pri naravnem ribnikarjenju namre\u010d ne preganjamo raznih malih \u017everk, temve\u010d jih ne\u017eno poberemo z lopate ter previdno vrnemo v vodo. Ne le, da so drobne vodne po\u0161asti bistven del ribnikove naravne lepote, ampak so tudi izrazito dobrodo\u0161le zaveznice&#x1f49c;, saj pojedo vse komarje<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wildlife pond needed a little dredging, which is a task normally done after draining the water first. But I didn\u2019t want to disturb the pond\u2019s countless tiny inhabitants any more than strictly necessary, so I decided to skip the draining. Instead, my shovel and I waited for a dry spell when the water level &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Reality of Wildlife Ponding<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,129,128,17,93,114,92,12,7,25,84,94],"tags":[209,186,185,179,195,201,206,197,103,85,189,98,180,204,205,203,193,95,210,96,194,187,191,192,199,200,208,207,202,71,75,188,89,184],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-english","category-insectlife","category-insects","category-life-in-slovenia","category-natural-ponds","category-neanderslavia","category-ponding","category-slovenia","category-objave-v-slovenskem-jeziku","category-videos","category-vojnik","category-wetlands","tag-dredging","tag-fishingboots","tag-linerless","tag-linerlesspond","tag-littlelake","tag-muck","tag-mulj","tag-naravniribniki","tag-naturalpond","tag-neanderslavia","tag-noliner","tag-nolinerpond","tag-pond","tag-pondbottom","tag-pondcleaning","tag-ponddredging","tag-pondgirl","tag-ponding","tag-pondlady","tag-pondlife","tag-reclaimed","tag-retentionpond","tag-ribiskiskornji","tag-ribnik","tag-ribnikarjenje","tag-ribniki","tag-shoveldredging","tag-showeling","tag-silt","tag-slovenia","tag-vojnik","tag-waders","tag-wetlands","tag-wildlifepond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}