Flamingos braving the cold at Slimbridge!

We couldn’t resist a winter visit and weren’t disappointed. I love to see the Swans and Geese flying, landing and taking off -always at the point when I had my camera switched off, of course. I had to make do with the fairly sedentary flamingos.

 There’s always a book in the visitors centre for people to write down the birds they’ve spotted – we were slightly dubious about the owl spotted in the car park and resisted the temptation to put down the very rare Pigwidgeon seen nesting on top of the toilet block!

See the summer visit here, and here .