Tag Archives: Fen Landscape

Fen Landscape – Cottenham

Posted on August 7, 2022 by Brian

Saturday 6th August – sundown on the stillest of evenings, swallows twittering in migration restlessness, the harvest done.

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Brian

Cottenham Lode and Great North Fen, 15th July 2022, in a prolonged dry period.

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Fen Landscape

Posted on June 6, 2022 by Brian
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Fen Landscape Revisited

Posted on May 12, 2022 by Brian

Roy Hammans made reference to photographic trips exploring the fens in his comments on my post of 8th May. Here are two pictures from 1979: my view of silver birches at Holm Fen; and Roy’s photograph of me (I was … Continue reading →

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham Lode 2

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Brian

Spring reeds and cow parsley along Cottenham Lode, May 2022.

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham Lode

Posted on May 8, 2022 by Brian

Cotteham Lode with spring reeds and cow parsley from Rampton end, Amy 2022.

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Fen Landscape – Rampton

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Brian

Two photographs from a walk at Rampton in 23rd May 2022.

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Roads

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Brian

Wednesday to Thursday: the twists and ups and downs of the roads around Cheltenham.  Saturday: winding through Grantchester, Barton, Comberton, Toft, Bourne and Longstowe (to see bluebells and oxlips in Hayley Woods).  Sunday: back on the familiar fen straights.

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Fen Landscape – Quy Fen

Posted on March 20, 2022 by Brian

Quy Fen, Friday 18th March – first chiffchaff, Phyllaoscopus collybita, of spring.

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Fen Landscape – Rampton

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Brian

Cow Lane, Rampton, Sunday 19th December, shortly after photographing the sheep posted on the 20th.

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham

Posted on December 20, 2021 by Brian

Sheep have been grazing on land east of the Cottenham Race Course for several months. No grass here – they seem now to be surviving on some kind of break or cover crop. (And no seasonal shepherds watching the flock.) … Continue reading →

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Fen Landscape – Swavesey

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Brian

With the walking group at Swavesey, Wednesday 1st December 2021.  Parked in Market Street and headed NW out of the village, across the Guided Busway and along the bank between the Lagoon and Swavesey Lake.  Strong cold wind from the … Continue reading →

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham

Posted on October 8, 2021 by Brian

Fen drain, North Fen, Cottenham. Perhaps we should think of them as veins, not drains.

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham

Posted on October 2, 2021 by Brian

Another September evening on North Fen, Cottenham.

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Fen Landscape – Reach

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Brian

Reach, Wednesday.  Parked in the village, climbed up onto the Devil’s Dyke and walked south-east between hedges rich with autumnal fruits, hips, haws, sloes and blackberries.  Just before the line of the old railway we dropped down to the right … Continue reading →

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