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April 23

As the Season Turns

CHAPTER

Introduction

On the 1st of April, the sun rises at 6.46am in Enveness and at 6.56 in Padstow. But before that, there will have been degrees of sunrise, degrees of fading twilight and each of these has a name. There is an explosion of green here as frog bit, horn wort, water soldiers and broad leaf pondweed rise up from the mud at the bottom reach the surface. Nutes are secretive breeders choosing deeper ponds and carrying out most of their breeding by night. The female wraps each individual fertilised egg in a leaf laying up to 600 between now and July.

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