With it being May most of our graziers are allowed to put
their cattle on the various bits they rent from us.
Tubney Fen, Oily Hall and Hurdle Hall are now being
grazed with Burwell Fen waiting for our own highland cattle and konic ponies
later in the month. Oily Hall can actually be grazed all year round but with a
new grazier taking over they decided to let the grass grow a bit before putting
them out. Bakers Fen, Guinea Hall, Harrisons and the Mere are grazed all year
round by our own highlands and konics.
Here are the first few loads getting let out on Tubney Fen:
We celebrated the NT’s 114
th birthday at Wicken
Fen. The Sedge Fen is a bit older with sedge harvesting being recorded as far
back as 1400 and the fen itself beginning to be formed about 7000 years ago. It
was a nice cake.
I was down at Oily Hall putting in a small section of fence
next to the pond and it struck me that in just over a year the new pond had
begun to fill with a huge range of species. I need to take some books down to
have a proper look.
We had a star gazing evening on the fen as part of our fifty
things to do before you are eleven and three quarters campaign. We had two
great talks and learned a great deal, the simplest being that meteorites hit
the earth and meteors don’t. Below is a photo of the star Vega, sadly I couldn’t
get a photo of Saturn, but it was amazing to see through the telescopes. I had
no idea that I would be able to see the rings so clearly.
As usual I am on Twitter @vision_warden .Here are a few more
pictures of other bits and bobs that have been going on:
Tubney Fen looking nice and flat
Pennies to the Crowd at Reach Fair
Our stall at Reach Fair
Still fixing the fences, this one is just about to be stapled back up.
