European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Flamingos Lell gel special healed quarters during cold months. Photos by Gus Schuettler Birds serious birdwatchers top Are provided with sheltered look out stands. An indoor shelter left keeps visitors warm during cold weather. To. " ihv4 i England shelters foul weather friends baking Cruces . Bureau Pioneer work in focusing attention on the Beauty and wonder of wildfowl has been carried out in Bewick s swans and White fronted geese that have come from their summer Breeding haunts 2,300 Winter is As spectacular As Spring and summer on the Salt marshes and mud Flats of British estuaries and sheltered inshore Waters. These wetlands provide feeding and roosting Sites for hundreds of thousands of migrant wildfowl ducks geese swans and waders. Birds Are at their smartest now when they Are displaying their mating colors and beginning to pair off for the Start of the Breeding season. Britain by the wildfowl Trust established by sir Peter Scott in 1946 at Slimbridge Gloucestershire England where these photos were taken on a bitingly cold recent Day. Slimbridge has the largest and most comprehensive collection of wildfowl in the world with nearly 200 different kinds. On these Days flocks of swans calling constantly As they Fly Drift out of Leaden skies like so Many snowflakes. Comfortable hides give a close up View of the flocks of swans that Winter there such As Miles away in Siberia. The wildfowl collection spreads across 100 acres of pens Ponds and hides with a further 1,200 acres for the wild Winter flocks which descend on Slimbridge in the thousands. Flamingos in their super heated indoor quarters provide a splash of color even on the dullest Days. Tame geese follow visitors everywhere at Slimbridge and the Best defense against probing beaks can be a packet of wheat purchased 8 stripes Magazine Lebrun 27,19k