Young and old joined forces for a conservation experience in Wolverley designed to boost wildlife in the village.
Work on the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust project at Bishops Field Nature Reserve began in the summer when the Wyre Forest WATCH group - the junior branch of the trust - helped by digging out a dense mat of rank vegetation and dead branches from the marsh to restore one of two pools.
Children and parents searched out the rare tussock sedge on the marsh and had sightings of frogs and the elephant hawk moth caterpillar.
Last month teams of helpers gathered to clear some of the collapsed willows and alders around the second pool.
After opening up the second pool, trust spokesman Andy Harris is hopeful both will become a breeding ground for frogs, newts, dragonflies and many small invertebrates.
"In turn these will support larger predators such as grass snake, water shrews and bats," he added.
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