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Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre
 Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre ... slimbridge@wwt.org.uk. The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) promotes the conservation of wetlands focusing on rare wetland birds. Newest Review: ... is recommending for visitors with children who simply want a nice easy walk round to ‘feed the ducks’ and have little interest in sitting in a hide with a pair of binoculars, the second for people who have optical equipment and want to sit in a hide. Leaving the centre you go through an educational area with some details on environment and conservation and during half term and holidays they ... more ... have brass rubbing and badge making for the kids and here you can buy your bird food for 50p a bag, we rarely buy this these days but if I do I’ll get one and a spare bag and split it, there is plenty, but the Canada geese will eat out of your hand if ...more |
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Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre: Water, Water everywhere (2150 words)
by MaryanneH - written on 10.04.06 (Very useful, 799 readings)
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Spring has officially arrived, the Kingfisher are back perching on their favourite branch and the hoards of twitchers are queuing up, telescopes, binoculars and very long lens cameras in hand. Living in Gloucestershire not far from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre at Slimbridge I have been a member of the Wildfowl and Wetlands trust (WWT) on and off for a good many years. The WWT is primarily a charity, started in 1946 by Sir Peter Scott, the son of the arctic explorer. Slimbridge was the first of the 9 visitors centres set up by the WWT and is the headquarters of the trust. Sir Peter Scott chose Slimbridge because it lies on the banks of the ...
There's A Dead Man In The Field... (739 words)
by karenuk - written on 28.06.01 (Very useful, 106 readings)
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I went on a school trip on Monday. No, this is not a revelation declaring I am only twelve after all. I went as a parent helper. Unfortunately, it was 31 degrees Celsius that day and I didn’t have enough drinks with me, so that might have clouded my experiences somewhat, but I will try to give a fair assessment of the place we visited. The trip was to Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre. This is situated in the beautiful little village of Slimbridge, between Bristol and Gloucester. There are nine such centres across Britain, the others being at Martin Mere (Lancashire), Arundel (West Sussex), Washington (Tyne and Wear), Caerlaverock ...
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