Picture Special: Wildlife photographer captures beautiful images at Blue House Farm Nature Reserve in North Fambridge

ESSEX wildlife photographer Nick Lay has captured these beautiful images at Blue House Farm Nature Reserve - on the north bank of the River Crouch at North Fambridge.

Nick is a frequent visitor at the reserve, managed by Essex Wildlife Trust, which is home to a large number of different bird species, as well as other wildlife.

The farm and nature reserve in Fambridge Road covers 242.8 and most of the site is in of the Crouch and Roach Estuaries Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).