Dog-leg

This is one leg of a small pond on Wanstead Flats. Thanks to the Wanstead Birding Twitter account, which recently posted a comprehensive list of sites on 'the patch', I know that this pond is called Cat And Dog (although I don't know why). The pond is somewhat seasonal and can dry up completely in the summer, although it's damp enough for reeds and sedge to grow there.

According to Wanstead Birding, a couple of Snipe were flushed from there in the past couple of days, which is exciting, but today all I saw was a very pretty male Greenfinch.