Visiting Slimbridge
Sir: Clive Gammon reports (April 8) on his visit to Slimbridge in a very unhappy way. When we were there on January 20 all the flamingoes were out in their ponds in the sun, they were certainly not "pent up in huts for the winter." I was delighted to see them because when we visited Kenya in November we spent several hours at Lake Naivasha and there was not a flamingo to be seen. We came away from Slimbridge thrilled by everything we had seen, including several hundred wild geese on the Durables. Our particular pleasure had been eating our picnic with a Snow Goose in attendance on one side and a Hawaiian Goose on the other gently tugging our coats. The former I doubt if I should ever see in the wild, and the latter would by now have been extinct had it not been for the care and skill of the Wildfowl Trust — I look forward to my next visit. Joy Lawrence 5 Burlington Road, Swanage, Dorset
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