Market Weston Fen

Today we visited Market Weston Fen a SSSI, Natura 2000 site which is managed by Suffolk Wildlife Trust.

With over 250 flowering plants , 20 species of butterfly including the White Admiral and graying. Birds like Snipe, Sedge Warbler breed in the open fen.

So you can see from the description above we were looking to have a good visit. Like yesterday it was a hot and humid day although more cloud cover made the temperature more bearable.

On arrival we followed a well signed circular walk and it wasn't long before we were photographing various species of plants and flowers, this proved to be a rather wet exercise, dispite a long period of no rain the fen proved to live up to it's name, as soon as I knelt down to take a photograph the water rose and made my trousers wet.

Of course there were the usual rabbits darting in and out of the heath area. Yet again there were several dragonflies darting around the various areas of water and just like yesterday I was unable to photograph these as they were too active.

The highlight of our visit was to spot a White Admiral butterfly, this was the first time I had ever seen one and as per usual I was to slow to photograph it, however my photographic buddy Matt was quick of the mark and he managed to capture a record shot of it (see top of this blog)as Matt politely said the photograph is not a prize winner the main thing was to be there to see and record it....

Both Matt and I shall be visiting this beautiful fen again and I can thoroughly recommend it to you all...Grid reference TL987789