This week we are going to the Wildlife & Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge for a few days. We are staying at a campsite right next door in Herman.
We finally arrived after a miss-start due to me forgetting my camera lens and tripod just in time to watch them feed the spoon-billed sandpiper chicks. Feeding was shown through a live video to their cinema. The spoon-billed sandpipers are near extinction and there are only 200 left in the world. The WWT are in the process of bringing them back from the brink and have collected some eggs from the breeding grounds in the artic tundra in Russia. They now have 13 healthy chicks which is 5% of the spoon-billed sandpiper population.
The WWT are an amazing organization originally created by Sir Peter Scott who's father is the famous Captain Scott of the Antartic.
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