A single Roe deer has been fascinating visitors to the Etton Maxey Pits nature reserve for many months now.
It seems to have joined up with the Trust’s flock of sheep and can often be seen with them. The shot above shows it apparently playing hide and seek with this ewe.
It was taken by Julie Budnik-Hillier during a walk around the reserve and is our image of the month for February.
Each month we select photographs taken by our Facebook members and posted on our site. They might not be technically perfect – but they sum up the events of that month. Here are some other images from February. You can click on them to enhance your viewing.
Another set of new visitors have been attracting a lot of attention on the Etton Maxey reserve. A herd of Belted Galloways have been loaned to Langdyke for a couple of months to graze the site.
They are likely to be more aggressive with the vegetation than the sheep that are already on the land and will hopefully improve the ground for the summer months.
The sheep have also been at the centre of the action with the first lambs of 2021 being born at Etton High Meadow. This little fellow arrived during one of the coldest nights of the year amid snow and ice. Mum took him off into a shed out of the cold and he’s now enjoying the spring sunshine.
The month has seen almost every season in weather terms. There was snow and ice and heavy rainfall before the sunshine arrived.
This picture of the pond at Swaddywell taken by Cliff Stanton shows how the flooding has lifted the pond liner. Hopefully it will rectify itself as the water recedes.
Jackie Robinson captured this shot of snow on the ground at the Torpel Manor site.
And Jo Berridge was on hand to capture this spectacular rainbow over the Maxey Cut.
Night time shots always prove to be difficult. But you can just see this owl in the photo taken along the south drain by Linda Wellington.
You also need to look closely at this night shot organised at Barnack by Michael Jarman using Langdyke’s trail camera. A badger was just one of the night time visitors to be captured on film.
As usual there were some other great shots taken by Langdyke’s photographic followers including these:
