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The life and times of Cynthia the goose
Cynthia was a much loved doyenne of Martin Mere who welcomed visitors to the centre and enjoyed conducting the occasional tour around the grounds. She celebrated her birthday with a Duke, and after her death she was much mourned by staff and visitors alik
20 October 2014
Our volunteer: Bett Leech
Meet Bett, our volunteer who has been here over 20 years. How long have you worked at Martin Mere? Just over 23 years, now. What was the first job you did? I started in the education department, and on my first day I had to type up a report, and th
17 October 2014
Incredible journeys of our geese
Looking out across a field full of 45000 geese, it can be difficult to imagine how our researchers are able to pick out individual birds and track their movements during their migration, but with the help of light but highly visible plastic neck rings, we
14 October 2014
Meet Pete: Our longest serving member of staff
Each week we are going to tell you about the incredible journey of our staff and volunteers. This week we would like you to meet Pete Bullen, who is currently our longest serving member of staff and he is pictured here with a fashionable moustache, with C
10 October 2014
How it all began
WWT Martin Mere opened its doors to members in late 1974 and opened to general public on 1 March 1975. Over the last 40 years, we have welcomed over 5.5m visitors as well as over 300,000 school educational visits, but how did the journey of Martin Mere be
6 October 2014
New hides going in
Two new wildlife watching hides are being put in place at Steart Marshes over the next fortnight. One will be open for use by mid-July and the other will become accessible when the rest of the path network is opened in the autumn. The hides are made from
17 June 2014
New hides going in
Two new wildlife watching hides are being put in place at Steart Marshes over the next fortnight. One will be open for use by mid-July and the other will become accessible when the rest of the path network is opened in the autumn. The hides are made from
17 June 2014
New hides going in
Two new wildlife watching hides are being put in place at Steart Marshes over the next fortnight. One will be open for use by mid-July and the other will become accessible when the rest of the path network is opened in the autumn. The hides are made from
17 June 2014
WWT welcomes ban on damaging pond plants
South American water primrose: Oversized, overzealous and over here! British wildlife will be safer from damaging non-native plants due to a ban on the sale of some exotic species which comes into force this week. Plant stockists will no longer be able
7 April 2014
Progress...
Well! It's been a long time since we've updated you, but we've been exceptionally busy behind the scenes! We want to keep the design of the sculpture a complete surprise to everyone, but we thought we'd give you a teeny sneak-peek of some of the images t
8 March 2014
The Festival of Swans
Well, what a busy weekend! As part of WWT Welney wetland centre annual weekend ‘Festival of swan’s’ we held one of our open Flock Together workshop sessions down in the pond room. It was a really special session because the Fenland Poet Laureate, Le
28 November 2013
Flock Together at Downham Market Library
In view of the terrible storm predictions yesterday morning, we did wonder whether anyone would venture out to join our session at Downham Market Library and just as we were unpacking the rain began and hope of a busy session became increasingly diminishe
29 October 2013
An evening with the Swavesey and Over Conservation Society (SOCS)
This week we visited the Swavesey and Over Conservation Society. The talk had a very autumnal feel-especially when one member walked in with a crate full of apples! The meeting started with Francis kindly introducing myself and Karen to the group
12 October 2013
Wetland Calligraphy at Southery Primary School
On Wednesday 18th September, the Flock Together project went and visited a Southery primary School. With us we took our usual array of paraphernalia, including swans wings and Bob the Bewick’s swan, but also loads of wetland materials so that the cla
12 October 2013
Migrating to William Marshall Primary School
(Pictures to follow) On a lovely warm day in late September, the Flock Together project migrated down the road to William Marshall Primary School in Welney village. The pupils of William Marshall were well prepared for our project as they were currently l
7 October 2013