Welcome to the Biggs' Wildlife Ponds
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Learn about our wildlife pond in Sebastopol, CA and our off-the-grid pond in McCloud, CA
in its 8th year, April 2004 |
in its 8th year, April 2014 |
We've built our pond in our Sebastopol,
California backyard, in the hole that was left when we took down our above
ground pool (the deep end was dug in). We've used almost all native plants.
A lot of the fun in building this pond has been finding the plants, identifying
them, and just seeing what will survive and what won't. We've also collected
our own rocks. One of our biggest joys is seeing all the `critters' our pond supports,
especially the dragonflies!
We encourage everyone to consider putting in a pond for wildlife.
It is a
real joy.
Watch an HOUR long Presentation that Kathy gave in 2013 to the Saratoga CNPS club on
Building Ponds for Wildlife
on YouTube: YouTube Presentation
We had a gorgeous mantled Black Bear come swim/bathe in our Mt. Shasta pond.
We put a one minute video up of his visit on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz4Rs6dTRFc&feature=youtu.be
Pleasures of Wildlife Ponding. List of steps to Build a Pond for Wildlife List of (mostly) North American Native Plants for use in ponds Please check out our
We no longer advocate the use of mosquito fish, Gambusia affinis for mosquito control unless you live in the midwest or southeast U.S. where these fish are native. We've had negative experiences with their preying on our native western Pacific/Chorus Frog eggs and pollywogs and the dragonfly/damselfly eggs and nymph. If you live in the west, please consider using mosquito dunks, or a native fish such as Killifish or Sticklebacks that our tree/chours frogs, dragonflies, etc. have evolved with. I don't know anything about this site, but I did find it as a link I could point folks to. Most garden centers should sell this donut-shaped bacillus (BTi) 'dunk', please look for them. They kill ONLY members of the diptera family, such as mosquitoes and black flies. They DON'T harm dragonflies, butterflies, cats, dogs, horses or people, etc.
Build a Pond for Wildlife eBook
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Our Sebastopol, California Pond's Development and growth, from most current in time backwards to its formation:
Our McCloud, California Pond on the southeast side of Mt. Shasta
Learn how to attract wildlife to your home. This book includes a full chapter on Ponds for Wildlife, featuring the Bigsnest Pond. The California Wildlife Habitat Garden: How to Attract Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals [Paperback] Nancy Bauer (Author) 
Click on this link for more information &/or to buy: California Wildlife Habitat Garden Read Nancy's Wildlife Gardening Blog |
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If you've found it helpful, a donation to help keep it on the web would be appreciated, thanks! K. Biggs |
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Below are links to the CA & SW Dragonflies websites I've built & also links that go to my books, INCLUDING OUR NEW COLORING BOOK and some other books that we now sell: This will take you to our California Dragonflies Site with links to pictures for identifying all of California's damselflies and dragonflies and this link will take you to our Southwest Dragonflies Site with links to pictures for identifying all the damselflies and dragonflies that are known to occur in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. |
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A Coloring book that teaches about dragonflies and dameslflies Dragonflies of North America, A Color and Learn Book with Activities 2007 Click here for more information 
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both by Kathy Biggs and Tim Manolis Azalea Creek Publishing |
SORRY - OUT OF PRINT Our revised, updated and expanded dragonfly guide for California: Common Dragonflies of California A Beginner's Pocket Guide, 2009 (replaces out of print 1st & 2nd printings of this title from 2000) 
useful in OR and WA too! by Kathy Biggs Azalea Creek Publishing |
now Available 
by Kathy Biggs June 2015 Includes all the species found in California |
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The Habitat Garden Book:
Wildlife Landscaping for the San Francisco Bay Region Click here for more information 
by Nancy Bauer Includes a section on dragonfly ponds Revised Second Edition June 2008 |
SORRY - OUT OF PRINT A guide for identifing the dragonflies & damselflies of the greater Southwest Common Dragonflies of the Southwest A Beginner's Pocket Guide 2004 Click here for more information 
by Kathy Biggs Azalea Creek Publishing |
Dragonflies of California and the Greater Southwest: A Beginner’s Guide (2017b eBook) : Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah Kindle Edition 
Lightweight! Take it with you on your phone, tablet or Kindle. |
Click here to read the article An Interview with Kathy Biggs, on Dragonflies, Dragonfly Ponds and how She Became an Author
If you have a pond, would like to make one, are interested in California native plants or wildlife, or just would like to contact us, please do so bigsnest at sonic.net
Click here to go to a page of links to other WILDLIFE ponds
If you have comments or could make contributions of stories, photos or ideas please click here to email me.
| In 1998 this pond site received a "Links2Go Key Resource award" in the Ponds topic!
We proudly display the award, which is presented to "Fewer than one page in one thousand....based on how actual page authors ..... index and organize links on their pages." |
This site is totally privately funded. If you've found it useful, a small donation will help keep it on the web! Thanks, Kathy Biggs
This site was visited 86,336 times between when the counter was put on
it at its first web-host site (August 29, 1998) and when it was
moved to PowWeb on March 25, 2002.
Since it's move, this site is averaging 150 unique
visitors per week by folks interested in ponds.
We thank you for your interest - Kathy Biggs email Kathy
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