News
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
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
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
Play area update
We are now in a position to start the play area development and I have attached below an outline of what the new one will look like (not the final version as still a few slight amendments to make). The current play area opened in the late 80s and it has b
30 January 2012
Bird News
The unpleasant weather over the last couple of days seems to have put many people off, but the birds are still out there for anyone willing to brave the squalls ! At one stage today 3 Marsh Harriers, [...]
27 January 2012
A whole lot of holiday fun for the whole family at WWT
Why don’t you visit your local WWT Wetland Centre during February half term to enjoy a whole host of activities and events that the family can enjoy, while giving children exciting opportunities to learn about the natural world around them? With a medle
19 January 2012
Fantastic footage of the beavers
We have pulled two bits of footage from the beaver webcam that I wanted to share with you. There is some very cute footage of three beavers sat with their back to the camera grooming like they have decided not to perform for the camera anymore and we
19 January 2012