Long-time visitors to the Fletcher Garden will know that where this slope is used to be flat land with perhaps a slight rise. Then the pond was excavated to rid it of decaying vegetation, cattails and flowering rush. All that stuff was piled up south of the pond burying several bird boxes in the process. It was supposed to be there temporarily, but several years have gone by and the slope has become covered with dense vegetation and now looks like a perfectly natural part of the landscape, as if always there.