On the first day I headed over to Wicken Fen one of the most biggest and important wetland reserves in Europe. Ownd by the National trust. I walked for miles on that day and didn't really get a good shot. What I did like though is this muntjac deer that sneaked into a chicken coop to eat the chickens food.
two of the bird hides where elevated so you could see over the reserve, I got a distant marsh harrier from one of the tower hides but it was too far away for a decent shot so I made it into a landscape but it is still not worth a post. A Hobby turned up and grabbed a dragonfly and the next thing you know it was gone! In one of the tower hides a barn owl comes to roost but you don't often see it.
As I moved on I spotted a dragonfly eating a peacock butterfly, I just about got a head shot.
To finish the day off I sat down at the feeding station at took some garden birds.
Day 2 -
After not getting many decent shots at wicken I thought I would try RSPB the lodge HQ. The last Time I went was two years ago and saw a very small amount of birds. As I got there I headed straight to the lavender where all the small whites where.
I headed down the path towards the feeding station bird hide when I spotted something out the corner of my eye, I thought it was a moth but actually it was a brown argus!
The was nothing in the hides so I moved on.
On my way to the gardens I spotted a muntjac deer in the woods.
In the gardens all I managed was an Emerald damselfly.
More images at Louis Bain flickr
