Visit to WWT Welney 22nd March 2013
As a reward for enduring the renovation work on our house we took a few days off to do a bit of birding and a bit of visiting friends. Our initial plan was to do a two day birding tour of the Brecks but we stopped en route to see if we could get to the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust site at Welney. Our attempt to get there was greatly confused by the signage for the site which is fairly clear if you come from the Wisbech direction but not if you come from the Littleport direction as we did ! One thing in common with both our visits was the road closed signs we met with. We had come from the Wisbech side last year and had encountered the warning signs saying that the road was closed due to flooding so had not gone further. This year we came from the Littleport direction but missed the sign so went on past the village of Welney and came across the road closed signs again ! This time we ignored the signs because we could see cars coming from the opposite direction. This only meant that we went a long way out of our way and had to double back on ourselves coming back through Christchurch and back to Welney. From this direction the signage was much clearer and we eventually made it to the visitor centre. In point of fact the road closed signs mean very little because they do not have the manpower to keep changing the signs from open to closed so they largely say that the road is closed whenever there is inclement weather ! Continue reading