Who's Olie Horton?

Hi, I’m Olie Horton (and this is a photo I took).

I am 15 years young and I have just started my work experience at RSPB Frampton Marsh. I have been visiting Nature Reserves since I was about 5 and when the VC at Frampton Marsh opened, I was overjoyed that we had a fully operational nature reserve so close to my home town of Spalding.

I used to visit Frampton every weekend but now it’s about once a fortnight due to teenage stuff. I’ve been into Nature for as long as I remember now and from the age of about 6 I started visiting the Boston Wildlife Explorer group (WEX: the RSPB’s young members organisation) for about 4 years and then strangely gave up. To this day I have no idea why I gave it up.
However when I was 13 I started working at Phoenix (the teenage RSPB group) and my passion for wildlife took flight (get it?) again. Now at the age of 15 I am a regular volunteer at the VC at Frampton and I have recently been given the title of Junior Leader at Boston WEX; The place that started it all.

I am now in my second day of my work experience at Frampton and I am thoroughly enjoying it. It is a refreshing reminder of how much work goes un-noticed by the general public (including myself) that keeps the place up and running to the high quality visitors have come to expect from the active site. I have always respected the volunteers and employees of the RSPB, however even through my short time so far here the amount of respect that I have for their work have risen dramatically in just 2 days. I pleased to be part of a brilliant team.