After a hectic weekend, Watch group Saturday,Swan feed and talk at WWT Welney Sunday, I usually sit back and reflect on a Monday evening to what I have gained in knowledge and from meeting people.

Saturdays Watch theme was Winter visitors, I gained satisfaction the children (and parents) had learnt why birds visit this country in Winter and saw how much food there is for them in our hedgerows, why we will need to put out food for them in Winter as the natural food starts to disappear in the countryside and as the season gets colder.

At WWT Welney the theme is the same why the Whooper and Bewick Swans fly here in Winter from Iceland and Siberia, in my talk I try to cram in the History of the Fens and of course the wildlife, but best of all I get to talk to people who come there for all sorts of reasons, some just to see the Swans, some serious birders to get that one rare bird of their tick list for the year.

On Sunday I spoke to two ladies who had travelled up from the Isle of Wight to spend a week in Norfolk, two ‘Birders’ who always come to this ‘oasis’ as they put it at this time of year, and two photographers who described the area as magic, I really could not have put it better.