Wind in the willows

As usual, the day started sunny but the clouds built up quite rapidly. Rosie and I headed out to Stanground Wash fairly early, as I was overdue a photographic monitoring visit. Much of the grassland had been cut for hay, and a digger was on site, creating a new ditch and slubbing out some of the overgrown ones. Moreton's Leam runs along the southern boundary of the Washes, and is a typical fenland river, fringed by branched bur-reed and with yellow water-lily pads in the water. This year there's also a lot of water-fern around, an invasive species from South America that characteristically turns pink or red in the autumn. The brisk westerly breeze was rustling the branches of the white willows.