Fry

It's amazing how resilient the forests' inhabitants are. I find it astonishing that fry can thrive in the shallow ponds and headwater streams, even with ice framing their homes. Beyond their hardiness, their presence is testament to the forests' streams going from strength to strength, and the scale of their presence is testified to by the increased numbers of Herons and Egrets frequenting the waterways.

Frying tonight

Fry basking in the warm spring sun in one of the head water rivulettes of Avon Water in Holmsley enclosure. I think they're Brown/Sea Trout (Salmo trutta) fry, don't hold to that though. These fish born in the headwaters of small streams have an interesting life journey, some remain in the streams of their birth, others venture out into the sea where they morph into Sea Trout, returning to their stream of birth to spawn and die. Bonus point if you get the title reference 'frying tonight'.