Martinmere

We went to Martinmere last weekend -  The WWT reserve on what was once the largest lake in Britain is a magnet for the big Wild swan of Winter and for many thousands of Pink foot geese.   We had a lovely time despite the uninspiring food - the wildlife was great.  We spent time in the Ron Barker  hide looking over the frozen scrape and saw some Blackwits in really close and feeding in the grass alongside the Wigeon.

And from time to time  flocks of pink feet would fly over

Later we moved to the swanlink hide which runs alongside the south of the big central "mere".

The pictures come from there, the noise (and the smell) have to be experienced for yourselves.  It was great!