Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT)

Walking around and new uniforms

There is so much happening at the centre at the moment:

On 21 March we will be officially launching our new WWT uniforms and I will put a picture on this blog on 21st of the new selection which I hope you will all like and comment on.

I have also been round the grounds with the Director of Trading looking at the position of the new kiosk at the canoe safari and making sure the shape and design is correct to ensure we don’t have queues. We also have a kiosk in the play area so we have had a good look at ensuring the signage is right and that we are promoting where you can get ice cream over the summer.

The Buffleheads are now out in the Waterfall pen – this is the first time we have had these birds so it is a great new edition for our visitors and aviculture team. We have also moved the Bewick swans from their pen to swan lake so that they can be viewed whilst you sit outside on the cafe balcony.

There are still 1,300 Whoopers here and 500+ Pinkfeet, although numbers of swans should drop quite quickly over the next week or so as the migration back to Iceland begins but I am pleased to say that the spring waders increasing steadily with 50+ avocets on the reserve.

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Meetings with local businesses

I have had two fantastic meetings this morning and yesterday with Tesco and United Utilities.

Myself and the Marketing Manager met with the community officer for Tesco Southport yesterday to talk about how we can work in partnership in the future – we had some great ideas of linking in with educational programmes, offering prizes for competitions, running activities together initially linked to climate change week in March and we even talked about working in partnership to supply mammal food – especially for the beavers as they are so popular at the moment with the webcam. Hopefully we will also start working with other Tescos such as Chorley, Leyland, Formby and Wigan.

We have also met with United Utilities and it looks really promising that we will be able to start a very good working relationship with them. They of course have the United Utilities hide here at the Centre but there are so many other avenues we could go down linked to education or interpretation on water consumption – I will let you know what we ultimatley decide to do.

We have alos linked in with a competition that Premier Inn in Scarisbrick is undertaking in schools and we are offering prizes so that should be great for us as well – partnership working really is one of the best marketing tools we have and we hope to continue this further.

In other news, we have new birds to go out in the Waterfowl gardens: Buffleheads and Greenland White-fronted geese so they should be out and about in the next few weeks and I will put some pictures on this diary.

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