pod-noddles

Updated: June 2, 2025

All the birds loved the pond, and would fly down of a morning to have a regular splash and wash; flicking the water about with their wings, and sending it flashing and sparkling ever so high in the air, and making the little black tadpoles or pod-noddles go scuffling off into the deeper water.

George Manville Fenn - Featherland: How the Birds lived at Greenlawn