Black Firs and Cranberry Bog Nature Reserve

Number 2 reserve of my visits to all of Staffordshire's Nature Reserves.

Designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Ramsar site, Black Firs & Cranberry Bog is one of a series of nationally important peatland sites that have developed in natural depressions, caused by ice-sheets which covered parts of Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire some 15,000 years ago.

That's the introduction to this reserve on the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust's website.

It's a small site that's completely tucked away just off a main road. This shot is one of the drainage ditches just as a patch of light hit the trees. The surface of the ditch was covered in seeds giving it a matt surface.When the light hit it looked like ice. It was a brief few moments of sunlight!! For most of the day, it's been wet and extremely windy with some terrific gusts.