a partnership between

Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust
and Anglian Water

Last updated Thursday 9th April 2009

Environmental activity days on the Nature Reserve for children aged 7 to 11 years.

Look on the events diary for more information about upcoming events.

Run by qualified teacher-naturalists assisted by the Reserve Wardens.

Explorer Days - during the half-term holidays

Single-day activities -10am to 3 pm - £20 per child per day

Nature Detectives - Easter and Summer holidays

Easter 3-day course - £20 per day, or £54 for all three days

Summer 4-day course - £20 per day, or £68 for all four days

The dates for Summer Nature Detectives will be ;

20th-24th July and 3rd-6th August. Details about acitivites will be posted soon.

Family Fun Days

Activity days for all the family.    

Osprey Family Fun Day

Thursday, 16th April. 10am-3pm £5 per family. Games and activities for all the family and a chance to see these spectacular birds of prey. No need to book, just turn up on the day. Meet at the Lyndon centre. Further information available from the Osprey website.

INTREPID EXPLORERS

Tuesday 9th April saw a group of intrepid children visit the nature reserve for our first Easter Explorers Day. We started off with a ringing demonstration from Martin the Warden who showed us male and female Great Tits and then a male Reed Bunting. It was amazing to see the birds so close and find out how we keep track of where the birds spend their time.

Back at the centre we had a quick snack and then set to making some tasty treats for the birds. Our pine cone feeders are easy to make and very popular with lots of garden birds, especially Blue Tits and Great Tits. We then set the Explorers a challenge and asked them to try and identify some birds' nests in out game, Whose Nest is it Anyway?. Our teams did very well in identifying nests from Wrens, Song Thrushes, Chaffinches, Blackbirds and Reed Buntings. Two teams did very well and scored a perfect 5 - the Blue Explorers and The Wierdos!

We finished up the activity with a visit to the woodland hides and Shoveler Hide to see what we could find on the Nature Reserve. Next weeks Easter Explorer is now full, but we will be running Spring Explorers in May Half Term and Nature Detectives in July and August. There will be details on the Holiday Activities page shortly.

Please ring Jacky Morrell at the Anglian Water Birdwatching Centre for more details and forthcoming dates.
(01572 770651.)