Guest Blog from Site Manager David Braithwaite.
I had my binocular fix today with a walk down to the Saltholme hide, there were geese grazing perfectly happily just a few yards from me at either side of the track. Barnacle Geese to the left; about 60, posh little chaps in their dapper monochrome. To the right, Graylags, Candas and a solitary pink-foot all relaxed whilst visitors walked by or stopped to enjoy the pastoral scene. When I started here in 2006 and before Saltholme was a proper nature reserve open to the public, if I appeared anywhere near where the wildlife garden is today, all the geese would take flight in the knowledge that humans mean trouble! But on nature reserves like Saltholme, they quickly learn that we mean them no harm, that we want to enjoy them in peace...
Wouldn't it be great if the rest of the countryside could be like this.