Good morning. If you read our reserve blog regularly, you may have realised that I have been away for a week. Well, I returned to work this morning to look at our staff and volunteer sighting sheet this morning and there was nothing on it for the last week! Don’t worry though, there has been plenty going on while I have been away!
The big news is that both of our pairs of cranes have fledged young! Please read Dave’s blog post from Sunday for more information. The “Lakenheath Fen seven” can now be seen from Joist Fen viewpoint if you are lucky.
If I return briefly to last week, as Katherine mentioned in her blog post on Friday, we were visited by a group of staff and volunteers from RSPB Frampton Marsh last Tuesday. They saw a bittern from New Fen viewpoint and a turtle dove flew over West Wood. They also saw two hobbys from the Washland viewpoint and heard a grasshopper warbler near the visitor centre.
It was a nice day on Saturday and local photographer Matt Walton took this fantastic photograph of an otter feeding in the river:
Thank you very much to Matt for sharing this great photograph with us.
I went for a walk before work this morning and there was plenty to see and hear around Brandon Fen. There were still plenty of blackcaps singing and I saw my first turtle dove of the year flying east overhead. There were also at least 77 mute swans on the washland along with two great crested grebes.
There were plenty of dragonflies on the wing including several black tailed skimmers, two brown hawkers and an emperor dragonfly.
There were also plenty of butterflies on the wing. There were lots of gatekeepers along with a few ringlets. I also saw a peacock and a small tortoisehell.
The weather isn't looking too bad for the next couple of days so why not come and visit? We hope to see you soon!