Collie Ennis
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820 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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Because anything that lands in there or tries to eat the fish are going to make a meal of most of the aquatic insects that we're trying to give a home to.
they won't be able to survive.
So when you take the fish away, what you're doing is recreating these old areas that used to exist in Ireland for them to live.
For example, you know, you drive around the countryside, if you're sitting in a train in particular and you're looking out the window, have a look out the window as you're passing along and you'll see lots of troughs, metal troughs for cows and sheep and animals, horses to drink out of.
Before them, they had farm ponds.
We had farm ponds all over the country, little wet patches on the grass, and they were all filled in on the instruction of better farming practices by the government.
Were they dangerous to kids?
Well, I mean, it was more to give more land for grazing.
Absolutely.
Dragonflies, amphibians, which is my obsession, diving beetles.
all the kind of the small aquatic midges that come up that feed bats I mean these pond ecosystems are so rare nowadays that like there's no fresh water small fresh water bodies without fishing them the numbers just absolutely crashed and what we need to do is kind of rethink what you'd like to have in an attractive pond in your back garden and everybody should try to have one and it doesn't have to be a massive thing it can be exactly what your may have done
Well, you see, everything is connected in this food web.
And the likes of, especially water beetles and aquatic beetles, are quite chunky and large.
So they're feeding the bigger bats and the bigger birds.
They're feeding on the wing.
Because the water beetles, even though they're called water beetles, actually can fly.
Like all beetles, they can flip, come up to the side of the pond, flip open their outer casings of their back, and then these origami wings come out, and off they go.
And some of them are like little helicopters, and they'll take off.
And the gas thing is...
So your auntie gets her lovely glass table from Woody's and she's sitting there having this cider of an evening.
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