25th November 2025 – WWT Slimbridge, Gloucestershire

The bright sunlight tempted us out again to WWT Slimbridge, just half an hour up the motorway from where we live in Bristol. However, we weren’t quite prepared for the cold winds which greeted us when we arrived on the estuary of the River Severn.

I don’t know whether I was affected by the cold but my photos were pretty dreadful and I have very few that I want to publish today.

In the last few blogs I have been experimenting with video and so I offer a short video of some of the birds we saw today. I have left the wind noise (but toned down) to give you a feeling of the cold wind!

Despite my excitement in my last blog about the Bewick’s swans there was not one to be seen today.

There were lots of geese and a few curlew but not much aerial activity except occasionally for flocks of lapwings and shelduck.