Our wetland is incredibly difficult to access, there are parts that we have never seen ourselves. Glimpsing through the trees we could see a lake, but it is so overgrown that it is hard to see its entirety from any where. If anyone else is curious what’s in there, we have made this virtual tour or the lake and surrounding wetlands.
There are two videos one from each side and you can see there is a lake of sorts, that is a patchwork of open water, reedbeds, wet woodland and the odd little island, all surrounded with a broad riparian buffer that makes it so impenetrable to people.
This is perfect water vole habitat!
The little islands are the remainder of footpaths that crossed the wetlands. These were still usable a few years ago, but got swept away by flooding in 2014 and then more so in 2024, with very little remaining of them now.