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...

We decided this year, that we would pay a visit to the Isle of Mull for our holiday, so back in February, planning and booking began - a gorgeous hotel was found (we were also celebrating a special anniversary), the ferry and a boat trip booked, in the hope of seeing White Tailed Eagles and other seabirds that I have never seen before.    We duly arrived, in the rain, at Oban and drove onto the ferry, staying out on deck for most of the crossing;  it was a bit damp, however we saw a couple of far off Seals popping their heads up and there were a few Gulls about.  Depending on which side of the ferry you looked out from, port was overcast and gloomy, whilst on the starboard side towards Loch Linnhe, it was glorious blues skies and sunshine...   When we arrived at Craignure, the rain had eased up so we set off towards the hotel, experiencing a slight culture shock with the single track roads and passing places (himself, after a couple of hair-raising ...