That's what you tell us anyway.
We're now rated as the number one visitor attraction in Suffolk according to Trip Advisor, with 97% of reviews rating Minsmere at least four out of five. We really enjoy reading reviews on Trip Advisor. Many reviews thank our amazing volunteer guides and reception volunteers for their great welcome and help. Others rave about the delicious food in the cafe - cakes and cheese scones come in for high praise.
Of course, some have their gripes , and we're working hard to improve our customer care even further to reduce these gripes. A few are unhappy at the cost of entry to Minsmere, which is of course free for all our wonderful members. If you love Minsmere, and have had a great visit here, why not share your thoughts with a review of your own.
There's still time to help Minsmere to win the BBC Countryfile award for Nature Reserve of the Year, as nominated by Chris Packham. The deadline for voting is Saturday 31 January, so if you haven't done so already please vote for us here.
Winter can be a quiet time to visit Minsmere, though when the sun shines many of you still come along to enjoy some winter wildlife. It looks like we've finally got a small group of 14 Bewick's swans roosting at Island Mere, but it's not easy to see them. They seem to leave soon after first light, returning after dark from their chosen fields somewhere north of Westleton - I haven't seen them yet. Two whooper swans are a little more reliable on the mere. Over the weekend we also had a small roost of starlings - though at about 800 birds it's nothing to shout about yet. They seem to have moved from North Warren, so if anyone knows where there are any starlings roosting on the Suffolk coast, please let us know.
Bewick's swans by Jon Evans
Other wildlife at Island Mere this week has included up to nine snipe, regular bitterns, bearded tits, otters and kingfishers, and several marsh harriers. A ringtail hen harrier was seen earlier in the week. I was lucky enough to walk into Island Mere Hide on Monday lunchtime when a dog otter was porpoising across the mere, then to watch it eating a fish. The coots weren't happy though.
On the Scrape we still have a single redhead smew, a few pintails and our first avocet of the spring, with one or two black-tailed godwits, dunlins and redshanks present most days, as well as four turnstones. There are, of course, large flocks of commoner ducks and lapwings too. A short-eared owl has been spotted on a few occasions too.
In the woods there are flocks of redwings, siskins and long-tailed tits, red deer and drumming great spotted woodpeckers. A great spot is also regular around the feeders at the visitor centre, which we're having to fill up three times a day due to the numbers of tits and finches feeding there. This is a good time of year to spot marsh tits on the feeders. Bullfinches don't visit the feeders, but are often seen around the car park.
With cold weather forecast this week, maybe we'll find more smew or swans dropping in over the next few days.
Bullfinch by Sue Tranter (rspb-images.com)