Pond Life 
yellow butterfly hovering; even the 
plainer-coloured pied wagtail, or Peggy 
Washtail, is particularly neat and dainty 
in appearance. The whole family of the 
wagtails, in fact, is a very elegant one; 
perhaps the most elegant of all being the 
grey wagtail, which, however, prefers a 
rocky stream in the more hilly northern 
counties to the ordinary pond, where it 
is seldom seen. 
As the seasons change and the year 
goes round the pond life changes with 
it. The swallows and the sedge-warblers, 
mayflies, dragon-flies, and other summer 
inhabitants. disappear and others take 
their places. The snipe, perhaps, comes 
to feed on the muddy shores, probing 
the mud with its long beak for the 
worms and insects on which it feeds ; 
and coots and some of the rarer ducks 
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