Today Matt and I had a return visit to Redgrave & Lopham Fen, although the weather forecast was intermittent showers and dispite the light not being conducive for photography we decided to give the Fen a look.
On arriving we were welcomed by two friendly volunteers in the visitor centre and seeing it was a bit on the nippy side we decided to have a lovely hot mug of coffee before setting off into the rather windy fen.
It wasn't long before we spotted a Munkjac deer, of course he soon scarpered of into the woods that surrounded this side of the fen, we then came across a very sheltered spot and I soon spotted a red dragonfly in a spiders web, the rush was on to photograph the demise of this insect as it was about to be devoured by a spider...I'm pleased to say Matt got the best shot as all mine suffered from camera shake as I only had a 400 lens attached...(see top of the page for Matt's photograph).
Whilst taking a slow stroll around the fen we saw a kestrel going down for it's prey and on one of the lakes we were lucky to see Kingfisher sitting on a post and a lone Egret unfortunately these were to far away to be photographed.
Another sight to see is the wild ponies that wander the reserve, these have been placed onto the reserve by Suffolk Wildlife Trust to manage the grass etc, whilst we were in one of the wooded areas a small group of these ponies were close by.
By now we were staring to get the lunch box syndrome and we headed back to the Visitor Center for another mug of coffee and an Alder Carr ice-cream, whilst making our way back Matt & I spotted a young Fallow Deer.
Just after this the sky decided to turn a nasty grey colour and just as we sat down to have our coffee the heavens opened and that was the end of our day out on the fen...
Despite not having many photographs that were worth keeping on my return both Matt & I had a very enjoyable day...
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