Visit to Slimbridge WWT : 30th June 2011
From the New Forest we drove to Bristol on the 29th where we stayed overnight. This enabled us to break our return journey up into stages and in Bristol we caught up with an old friend of ours. Next morning we just had a short drive to decided to Slimbridge where again we were staying at the Tudor Arms pub in Slimbridge village. We had an afternoon to fill so we were looking forward to spending it at Slimbridge WWT. The weather started off a bit poor but picked up slowly. The previous time we were here we had somehow managed to miss going to the SOuth Hide so this time we made sure by going there first. As soon as we sat down we spotted what we took to be an Egret but it looked a bit big to be a Little Egret. Was it a Great White Egret then ? Well, no, it was better than that because on the odd occasion when it unfolded itself from its slumbers it revealed itself to be a Spoonbill !