Thursday 25 June 2015

30 Days Wild - day 25

Today we took a stroll around our local nature reserve on the broads and spent some time with the water wildlife.


Three different types of geese came to eat our corn duck food, the Canada goose, many greylag geese and right near the water line there are a couple of Egyptian geese.


My daughter stopped to feed this new mother duck, who seemed very hungry. She had four very young ducklings waiting nearby for her.


A little further along we found the spot on the broad where we often see a pike and luck was on our side today as we could clearly see it in the water.


We think it must have been at least two feet long, I forgot to take the camera filter to allow us to photograph under water through the glare but I think you can see it ok.


My husband even managed a close up of it's head so you can see it's eye and big teeth. We watched for quite a while it really was a huge fish.


This is an emperor dragonfly, it was found beside the road, I think it had been hit by a car but we picked it up and moved it to a safe place in case there was a chance it would recover. This is the largest dragonfly I have ever seen.


The last two photographs are of two different types of leaf gall, we found them all over the same tree.









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