Hello and Welcome!
I’ve just started working as the Visitor Experience Officer at Fen Drayton Lakes, and on my first day I was lucky enough to see a weasel repeatedly criss-crossing the path in front of me. I have no idea what it was up to, but watching this one move, I could easily understand why weasels are referred to as ‘cunning’. This one certainly looked as though it had plans a foot! It kept darting ahead, then turning back to sneak a look at me, before returning to its business. They are very engaging beautiful little creatures, and it was certainly a treat to see one so close.
I am lucky to be starting at Fen Drayton in June, as early summer is such a pretty time of year in Cambridgeshire, with the traces of white cow parsley and blossom still just visible in the trees and hedgerows, and a range of flowers growing in lush hay meadows under the blue of the fen wide skies. Over the various lakes of Fen Drayton the presence of presence of swallows, house martins, terns, and other migrants all helped to confirm that Summer is finally here. During my walk this morning, I was also fortunate to see the smaller, but by no means less beautiful, many colourful and intricate dragonflies and damselflies darting about on the edges of ditches, rivers and waterways around the reserve.
Very soon we will be posting the summer events and activities programme on the Fen Drayton Website. If there is anything you would like to do on the reserve, or want to know more about, then please let us know, your comments and suggestions would be most welcome.
Here is a picture of a hairy dragonfly.
Image Credit; Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com)