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Frosty RSPB Fowlmere by Daniel Trim

Foraging Chiffchaff

Sunlight catching the head of a foraging chiffchaff with a cricket in its beak, at RSPB Fowlmere.

Colourized photos of Spitfire planes during WW2:

An RAF Spitfire sails above the clouds on the British coast.

Two German soldiers sit on a wrecked Spitfire that crashed on a beach in Calais (1940).

Engineers use a winch to lower a Merlin engine into a Spitfire at the Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory in Birmingham.

A column of Sherman tanks pass by a downed Spitfire in the French countryside during the Normandy campaign of 1944.

Flying Officer Leonard “Ace” Haines, of No.19 Squadron, sitting on the noose of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1 (Fowlmere, near Duxford).

Feeding Water Vole

A water vole eating water plants on a log in the River Shep, at RSPB Fowlmere.

Mallards

A couple of mallard ducks sitting in the sun, in the watercress beds, at RSPB Fowlmere.

Bright Brimstone

Sunlight shining through the brightly coloured wings of a brimstone butterfly, at RSPB Fowlmere.

Sunny Darter

A brightly coloured ruddy darter dragonfly sitting in the sun, at RSPB Fowlmere.

Water Vole

A water vole sitting on a submerged post in the River Shep, at RSPB Fowlmere.

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