Agree. No evidence to the contrary, we were just hoping. Our group of regular watchers have put many hours/days over the years and give a lot of help to other visitors and newbies. Fair to say we provide a lot of valuable information and it must count for something. The broken camera and lack of volunteer staff mean the Centre is understandably stretched to observe. Kingfishers bring a lot of people to Rye Meads.
Simon, you are spot on the money, the photography community at Rye Meads both male & female do provide a lot of feed back to the staff and also share their info with other visitors. Lets hope for a good year next year, roll on 2015 :-)