Strumpshaw Fen RSPB Nature Reserve

[John G]

Hi
   I recently visited this reserve after it being highly recommended. I arrived at a time when it was celebrating 40 years of establishment. It has done a wonderful thing and is a real asset to     
   Norfolk. I was hoping for a Kingfisher to stop of on a perch near the canal waterway, but along came a jack pike to absorb a little of the suns energy.

[elsa hoffmann]

the last image is gorgeous. Such a photogenic thing that!

[John G]

Hi Elsa
          Highland Cattle are used in many UK nature reserves as part of a natural land management initiative. This breed does very well on flood plains and help with creating bio diversity of the
          flora, this broader species of flora, then supports a wider amount of animal species. Not a chemical is put on the ground.
          Strumpshaw Fen has over a hundred years of being recognised  as a natural meadow, contain plants that are almost extinct in a wild habitat. At this time of year it is Macro Heaven.   

[Akira]

Hi, John, thanks for sharing these interesting images.  The first one looks the most enigmatic and intriguing, while others look beautiful.  What am I seeing in the first image?

[John G]

Hi Akira
            Thank you for your comments, the first image is a predatory fish known as the Pike, in the UK a juvenile like this one is referred to as a Jack Pike. This got my heart beating as I knew it
             is a image that rarely happens for a photographer in the wild. Luckily it was enjoying the sun as much as I was and stayed with me for a while. 

[Akira]

Ah, now I realize what I'm seeing.  The face of the pike!  Thanks for clarification!