A hot and humid day made us decide to go to Wood Walton Fen in the evening hoping to find it cooler with a bit of a breeze. How wrong we were. It was so hot and humid and the dark clouds kept gathering but did not produce any rain. Still we managed about an hours walk and managed to spot lots of Scarce Chaser Dragonflies that seemed to be loving the humidity.

Woodwalton Fen is owned by the Wildlife Trust BCN and is managed by Natural England and is one of only four remaining fragments of the ancient wild fens that once stretched for 1,350 square miles across the area and is a last haven for many rare fen species.

On the site of an old farmstead and at the heart of the new nature reserve, Charles Rothschild built a bungalow on stilts and used it as a base for his field trips out on the fen. Charles Rothschild was an English banker and Entomologist. He was concerned about the loss of wildlife habitats, and in 1912 set up the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves, the forerunner of The Wildlife Trusts partnership.