News
Pond dipping for adults
Pond dipping isn’t just for children. We are running weekday sessions especially for adults as part of our festival of gardening for wildlife. Come and find out who’s who in garden ponds. Sessions at 1.00 Wednesday 21 and Friday 23 March.
9 March 2012
Winner of the Work Your Butt competition
I was delighted to hear that a school in our district won the Work your Butt competition. Staff and pupils at Netherfield Primary School near Nottingham were delighted to win Best Worked Butt’ category in WWT’s recent Festival of Gardening ‘Work Y
9 March 2012
UK’s largest new wetland to be created in Somerset
Innovative plans will improve flood protection and create new habitats Planning permission has been granted to create one of the UK’s largest areas of new wildlife habitat on the Steart Peninsula in Somerset. The Environment Agency and the Wildfowl &a
8 March 2012
UK’s largest new wetland to be created in Somerset
Innovative plans will improve flood protection and create new habitats Planning permission has been granted to create one of the UK’s largest areas of new wildlife habitat on the Steart Peninsula in Somerset. The Environment Agency and the Wildfowl &a
8 March 2012
UK’s largest new wetland to be created in Somerset
Innovative plans will improve flood protection and create new habitats Planning permission has been granted to create one of the UK’s largest areas of new wildlife habitat on the Steart Peninsula in Somerset. The Environment Agency and the Wildfowl &a
8 March 2012
UK’s largest new wetland to be created in Somerset
Innovative approach improves flood protection and creates new habitats Atlantic marsh creation - before Planning permission has been granted to create one of the UK’s largest areas of new wildlife habitat on the Ste
8 March 2012
Lots of training
It is a week of training here at the Centre. All the training is happening this week for the volunteers that will be helping out on the canoe safari. They get health and safety training as well as hints and tips of how to control a canoe and customer serv
8 March 2012
Nominate your favourite wetland. Reward a hero and win a day with a warden.
WWT are looking for the unsung wetland heroes of the UK. We’re proud of the wetlands we manage, but hundreds more small wetlands exist with the support of the communities that live around them. We want to raise up and reward those who put in so much ha
7 March 2012
Internet problems
I'm sorry I have not updated this diary in the last week - we seem to have had a lot of internet connection problems on site and everything keeps crashing when I try to upload information. Fingers crossed the problem is sorted now. The weekend was fantast
5 March 2012
Nene activity increases.
The Nene are just loving the mild weather, and no fewer than 17 gorgeous girls have already sat down to incubate their precious eggs. Most of these birds are good solid favourites of mine, and include many adopted birds including AUS, AYA, AXN, BBC, BBH
28 February 2012
Black swan cygnets
We have recorded some lovely footage of the two black swan cygnets at Martin Mere. They are out on the water now enjoying the sunshine we have had in the last couple of days. The black-necked swans are still on a clutch of eggs as well, but we have no
24 February 2012
Brown hare surveys
Andy is on holiday this week as he is taking a few days in Spain. He will be back next week with our first Centre Manager podcast. Join the North West Brown Hare Project and WWT Martin Mere on Saturday 3 March in this unique event that allows you to learn
14 February 2012
WWT Festival of Birds welcomes thousands of visitors and new Slimbridge Zeiss Hide
Hundreds of visitors watched wild bird feeds at the festival WWT Slimbridge was the destination for thousands of people over the weekend as it held its annual Festival of Birds, which this year featured TV presenter a
6 February 2012
Events with Mark Carwardine
I am please to say that we have agreed two events with celebrity photography Mark Carwardine in May. He will be doing an evening talk on 12 May about his ultimate wildlife experiences and also two one-day photography workshops on 12 & 13 May. It is
3 February 2012
What did wetlands ever do for us?
London Wetland Centre reedbed - Martin Senior There's a scene in the Monty Python film Life of Brian where one character asks "what did the Romans ever do for us?" It then turns out that there's a long list of improv
2 February 2012