Flyladyphotography By Wendy Cooper

  Would you like to join me for a walk around Wood Walton Fen?  After my visit to Wood Walton Fen in April, I recently managed to return for a further explore. So one day, midweek, I managed to take a day off work and set off. Wood Walton is set deep in the Cambridgeshire countryside and is beautiful and very peaceful.    The day started off quite misty and foggy in places and when I arrived at the Fen, there was still quite a bit of mist about, I had decided this time, that I would visit the water hides first and then the Harrier hide, late on in the afternoon.  I set off along the trail for the water hides, walking past an area of grasses and reeds to my left, which had an electric fence around it and tall reeds to my right. Some of the grasses were still laden with dewy cobwebs, which were gradually drying as the sun came out and warmed everything up - it was going to be a warm day!   Squinting against the sun, above the field I could see a fa...

  When I was preparing a list for my Darting, Buzzing and Jumping blog,   I'd intended to include my butterfly sightings as well, thinking that I'd not seen that many this year, well I was wrong!  Whilst I have definitely seen lower numbers of the usual visitors to my local patch compared to previous years, there has certainly been no lack of variety in butterflies and moths.   In the early part of the year, there were cold and mild spells of weather which continued well into June, some of the time it was exceedingly wet as well as being unseasonably cool.  Many of the usual plants and trees were in blossom out of season and in some cases, like brambles or thistles, bloomed late and in some cases 'finished' a lot faster than I recall for previous years. The fallow field that I frequent is bordered by banks of brambles and woodland, there are patches of nettles and stands of Common Hogweed.  In the main part of the field, as well as the Hogweed, fro...