Watercourse

Here we go with watercourse photos after our recent changes.  This shows the north side of the watercourse, the side from which I formerly took photos.  The watercourse used to run down the middle of the rock cairn into the pool with the hyacinths in the lower center of the photo.  

This is a closeup of the north side of the rock pile.  The watercourse has now been rocked over but I had the pond people leave some holes between the rocks so that I could insert some plants.   The large brown object in the top of the photo is a large tree root given to me by a friend.  The upper pool of the watercourse is just the other side of the root... a group of bright green water hyacinths can barely be seen under the log.  The watercourse flows from the upper center of the photo off to the right side of the photo, away from my position. 

This is a closeup photo of the tree root given to me by a friend.  The birds often use this as a staging area for the upper watercourse.   This view is from the south side of the watercourse and is close to the view I have when photographing birds on the root. 

This is the south side of the watercourse.  In the upper center of the photo you can again see the bright green hyacinths in the upper pool.  The water cascades down towards the center of the photo, then veers to the left into a small intermediate pool, again containing hyacinths.  It then travels down a narrow rocky path to the lower pool back on the north side of the rocks.

To the right of the watercourse is my peat bog with some carnivorous and other interesting plants, and below it is a succulent bed.