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Many animals live in and around the ponds, stream and ditches here at Lewes Railway Land Nature Reserve. Some of these animal live in the water all their lives, some visit to lay their eggs while still others visit to catch food or to drink

 A Moorhen and its chick.                      A heron waits patiently for a meal.              A grass snake swims across the pond â€‹

    Daphnia, part of the pond plankton           A damselfly spends most of its             Pond snails feed on  algae and  

                                                                      life as a nymph                                     plants

 Pond skaters can walk on water                     A rare palmate newt                          A three-spined stickle back

   A beautiful dragonfly rests                    A spider carrying her eggs across                       Marsh frogs

   on a leaf                                                 water

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