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Stupid music so turned off.

We’ve just built a couple of times on the lake of about half an acre and another one of about 1 1/2 acre we dug down About a metre and a half into the SubSoul below the base of the pond in order to create a key which we then plug with clay in layers bringing it back up to the base level of the pond we then continued up in layers each layer being compactor it into the previous layer it was labourious and took a long time but it was the best way of ensuring that we had a monolithic structure that was kidding below the level of the pond I hope that helps

So advice, I started watching your channel as I thought it was a carp fishing lake you busy to build Lost interest when it saw it was just conservation build To get your number up of subscribers turn the lake into a fishing lake SO you give a little to gain a lot. The numbers will get you loads of followers and sponsors for other projects if it is a fishing lake Just my opinion

Awesome to see the progress on your lake Ones you start talking about climate crisis you lost my attention There is no climate crisis BUT we have abused the world for way to long and we need to put things back into place Keep up the good work

I hope it'll look better than your fish tank once it's done

Great video, however atleast for those in US/states an important note: Purple loosestrife is Incredibly invasive here. So if you’re planning to plant, always check if a plant is invasive in your area. Here in. The states, Liatris is native and non invasive alternative to Loosestrife.

@ $20 per sqm this 2.6 hectare lake cost $500,000 to build? Is my math correct?

Thanks

"Ship Happens" for the boat😂

Incredible to see the lake doing so well. Looking forward to seeing the log cabin build!

I always enjoy these updates. What a magnificent transformation. The lake looks like it has always been there.

Looking good bud can't wait to see the cabin build 👍

How did you fix the leak?

How much did the entire thing cost between labor , renting the equipment and the fuel to operate ? as well as any other cost

I m curious to know if these lakes with fish in them are safe to swim in ? is there a risk of catching a disease (bacteria , virus , parasites ...). or are pathogens controlled thanks to the ecosystem in place ?

Do you recycle the water?

Willow wall looks great (but hard work!)

What temperatures do you guys get here? Is there a specific willow that is good for areas with very low temperatures?

Great to see the updates and well done Nick and Liz on that wall, incredible work 👏

Thanks for the update, I have been patiently waiting 🙂

New subscriber and enjoying your lake build videos. Binge watched them today. Just one comment from me though… please can you reduce the volume of the music to more background as its very difficult to hear what you are saying at times. Personally I don’t think the music adds anything to the quality of the video. Will continue watching and look forward to seeing how the lake develops.

A beautiful poem Simone! 👏

Amazing! Id love to do this, on a smaller scale.

Beautiful piece of poetry ❤

Camellia to improve UK native biodiversity? Seriously? How many UK native species associations does a plant from south east asia have? Virtually none, other than some common Hymenoptera species that will take advantage of anything. We already have native species that flower over winter that work perfectly well (Hedera helix?). If youre trying to plant for climate change, hows about using the vast and perfectly adapted planting palate we already have from South West Europe that has already been here several times before, over millions of years of interglacials and already has infinitely more native species associations as a result, rather than using transcontinental exotics that have virtually none, and are also responsible for the vast majority of our invasive species? May as well plant a nice supposedly "wildlife friendly" plant like Cotoneaster hrizontalis (now a schedule 9 invasive species) while youre at it. This use of transcontinental exotics as a solution to biodiversity loss/climate change is oxymoronic. Has anyone done any experiments to see what a 2C temp rise will do to their fecundity? No.. no they havent.. Our native ecology is already utterly screwed as a result of this mentality. What happened to the precautionary principal? Stop it ffs.

Hi mate u can get a geo fence put up around your fisherie to stop drones flying over drone laws say you're not aloud to pester wildlife with a drone so go over to the aviation authority and get a geo fence put up its £5 for so many square feet so if u look up how to get a geo fence it will help you out

Love the video!! :) so glad to hear the channel was monetized!

Live Willow stakes for a retaining wall is free, you even could use the Dogwood. Earth banks are good feature for wildlife already though.

I would suggest a dry stone retaining wall .

The lake looks great, did you sort out the otters?

Great video, The Dogwood actually looked great popping out the water like that, It will be very interesting to see how the lake develops over the years and be able to measure the effects of the climate etc on it, (I am not really a major believer of man made climate change exactly.) How many farms are there in the area that use fertilisers? I am thinking of algae growth and over growth of things like duckweed etc, just from experience of local lakes. Keep up the good work. Love Peace and Respect

Use Pound Die. To improve the water quality and make it look good and helps with allergy Blooms

How many acres is your lake Nick?

Love this video!

What is the process for fitting the guard? Is it plant sapling first and then ease the tube down over it or dig hole first and feed sapling root first down through tube and then backfill? Or does it matter which method? Thanks

Brilliant video, looks like a fantastic trip and well done again on the award 👏🎉

You guys are awesome! It’s like my dream comes reality! A big like for you 🎉

I'm about to dig a natural pond my self so this is really informative. Ide love your feed back on water levels. I'm digging into wet clay also but worried about the water line in the summer as I don't want it to dry up.

That must be so frustrating. I expect you've heard of the Miyawaki forest approach. It goes against conventional techniques by planting x3 times as many trees in an area. It's meant to speed up growth by up to x10 times. We've just planted 1500 whips here in S.Devon and got funding for it. Just thinking that it would take you past the vulnerable stage much quicker ?

I'm an Angler, and Otters were never on our 'popularity' list. That said, they were here before us, so who are we to tell them to leave? One of the joys of angling is to be in Nature, and Otters are Nature..so can't complain. Best of luck with the project.

Good on you for being open and honest…..It certainly is a grey area, and awkward when visiting longleat with the kids, and they are mentioning how cute they are 🤦🏻

Incredible Video and Channel! I hope to visit England one day and visit this pond! Keep up the great work, I look forward to these videos!

If otters have arrived ,,,take a thousand quid every week and flush it down the toilet ,,,they've clean lots of fisheries out here in Scotland ,,i picked up a carp last year 26lb half eaten ,,and we had a electric fence 😅

Electric fences are not the best. A determined otter will go under or even jump over if it wants, you said that yours is 100 mm apart so I'm assuming 100mm of the ground. UKWOT recommendation is 3 strand at 70mm 140mm and 210mm. For this to be effective the bottom wire will need to be 70mm throughout its length, which is not particularly easy to achieve unless your ground is level all round remember also if rabbits burrow under you will then have to constantly check and repair on a daily basis. One thing you did say, is otters being reintroduced. It is a falicy, that is still talked about today 25 years after the last captive bred otter was released. There was less than 200 released over a 16 year period the majority in East Anglia. All otters in the wild in the UK today are from natural growth. Otters are very territorial and have very large territories, they live in low densities large territories. The likely hood is that the otter fishing your lake is the same otter that's fishing the other lakes that are close. Best advice I can give you is to contact Dave Webb at UKWOT, who will give you lots of advice and its all free. UKWOT want to work with fishery and lake owners. Just one other thing its impossible to know how many otters are in the UK, so without knowing that they cannot be controlled. Suffice to say that otters don't do anything different now to what they did thousands of years ago, the only thing that is different now, is with the rise in carp angling and fisheries, that they find it quite easy to catch them as they become more torpid in the winter months when otter predation tends to be at its highest on lakes and ponds.

If you want to create a proper little habbit and haven youll fence it properly and keep the otters out. Your fish and water foul and small mammals that show up will thank you for it, ive seen several other people with the same train of thought change their mind once they are burying the 2nd or 3rd batch of stock fish carcasses or the resident birds!

Can you not cull the deer?

I don't see you have a choice. Many people do not realise that Otters will predate waterfowl and ground nesting birds as well as fish!

Otters will kill all your fish and then move onto the next place fence it asap get trail cams up find them trap them move them far far away

Otters no good