TravelPlaces To GoThis Spring come "duckling and diving" at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust This Spring come "duckling and diving" at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
16/04/2008
This Spring don't miss the baby boom at WWT National Wetland Centre Wales. Ducklings, goslings, cygnets and other babies are beginning to hatch and can now be seen around the grounds.
From 24th May WWT National Wetland Centre Wales, Llanelli, will be holding special Downy Ducklings tours where visitors can take a special behind the scenes tour of the waterfowl nursery (duckery). Here eggs are incubated and hatched and visitors can see hundreds of newly hatched ducklings of different shapes and sizes at different stages from birth to adulthood.
Newly hatched chicks spend their first few weeks here where WWT wardens act as surrogate parents, ensuring they are fed, kept warm and have plenty of water. When they are two months old, they are moved back into the grounds to become part of WWTs captive breeding programme or are overwintered in the nurseries.
Special ducklings events and duckery tours will be taking place at WWT National Wetland Centre Wales every day from 24 May 1 June and every Sunday during June.
Find out more at the website linked below.
WWT National Wetland Centre Wales, Llanelli is open every day from 9.30 am to 5 pm and parking is free of charge. It can be found 2 miles east of Llanelli off the A484 to Swansea. Follow the brown duck signs off the M4, J48. Nearest railway station is Llanelli and bus routes run from Llanelli to Llwynhendy approximately one mile away from the centre.
Visit the web site to find out whats on all year round at WWT National Wetland Centre Wales and the other eight centres.