Hickling.

Friday 27th June 2008.

Camera  - Nikon Coolpix 8800.

Photos of Norfolk by Kevin Rowe. Graphics by Philip Rowe

Norfolk Wildlife Trust at Hickling. Photos taken Thursday.

A view of a reedbed from the Bittern Hide, no wildlife on view when I was there.

The Observation Hut from the boardwalk.

A view of Hickling Broad from the hut. Hickling Broad is the largest expanse of open water

in the Broads system.

Yellow flag iris.

Much of the walk is over marshland, this boardwalk has reedbeds either side.

All the marshland you see on Norfolkcam is crisscrossed with drainage ditches. The drainage mills

featured in my pictures once pumped water from these ditches into rivers, the job today is carried out

by electric pumps. This land must be managed in this way, too much water would flood the reedbeds

and too little would dry them out.

An area for drying reed and then preparing it for thatching.