75 Years of the WWT, in a roundabout fashion...

This sculpture is larger than it might look, due to the wide angle lens. The bullrushes stand metres over my head, and the repeating pattern (cue the Wide Angle Wednesday theme) of lily pads around the edge are about five feet high and are filled with two dimensional wildlife (cue the Wild Wednesday theme) including amphibians and wildfowl.

It's a new installation on the Slimbridge A38 roundabout to mark the 75th anniversary of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. The first WWT site was opened by Sir Peter Scott (son of the Antarctic explorer) in 1946 at Slimbridge, a small village on the banks of the River Severn and near the Gloucester to Sharpness Ship Canal.

I nipped up there after dropping Miss off at Southmead for a stent replacement, and was surprised and delighted to receive the call she was ready to be collected as I drove home - leading to a slight diversion. All my plans for loud music, beer and dancing for the next couple of days... well they might go ahead anyway. ;-)