Take a dip into #PondWatch 2025 on Saturday 7th June and Sunday 8th June 2025!  

PondWatch was born in 2020, during the first lockdown, to bring the magic of ponds to everyone when they couldn’t visit a pond.  Now, it celebrates everything pond every year!

Get out and explore your local ponds – or if you have one in the garden, however big or small, take a while to sit and watch it.  You could do this at different times of the day.   What can you see?  Find out about the animals you’re watching!

Follow on social media and share your photos and stories too!

The British Dragonfly Society has lots of videos about ponds – take a look at the Pond Doctor’s videos with help on how to solve problems such as Blanket Weed, Duck Weed, an Overgrown Pond, Leaf Litter in Ponds, Dry Ponds in Summer and more!

Get informed about pond life!

• Buglife can help you with invertebrates

• Riverflies have information on Mayflies, Caddisflies and Stoneflies

• Flutter off to Butterfly Conservation for butterflies and moths.

• For amphibians and Reptiles, hop off to ARC

• Fly away to the RSPB and WWT to discover all about birds, and the Wildlife Trust for information about general wildlife.

• The Beaver Trust is the place to go for details on Beavers.
  

Now the thing is, all these charities have opportunities to discover and enjoy lots more about ponds and wildlife there – but they also have the chances to volunteer and get involved!   How you do this is up to you – we all know how much time we have to give – but even if you can simply share the word, and sprinkle the magic of ponds around, that will help.

There’s #PondWatch all over the British Isles – take a look at Pondwatch Jersey!   It’s a project that aims to gather sightings of pond life in Jersey.  The data will help assess the conservation status, habitat needs and distribution of pond life!

And – if you want to have a pond in your garden but feel it’s too small, don’t worry – you can have one the size of a washing up bowl!  The main thing is to make sure that wildlife can climb out by giving them a slope of sorts to walk, waddle or scramble up!

The image at the top of this page is from David Farkas