Pumpkin Trail

We've travelled some way today, stopping en route at Slimbridge, the original WWT centre in Gloucestershire founded by Sir Peter Scott. Memories of wildlife TV when I was a bit younger !

It has a very different feel to Martin Mere, which I am more familiar with, and the birds are a bit different. No large flocks of Pink Footed geese here, but fewer numbers of Barnacle geese, one or two Brents, and some White Fronted Geese. And quite a few Greylags. No migrating swans - Bewicks are more likely here, but they come in from Siberia (the Whoopers at Martin Mere come down from Iceland), and the winds are against them at present - and more to the point, why use all that energy when it is so mild still !

Lots of wigeon grazing, and some exciting flocks of Golden Plover wheeling over the Severn foreshore.

Of course it is half term, so lots of families visiting, staff dressed up - and of course a pumpkin trail with kids having to count the pumpkins