This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the WSRS Spring meeting in the Somerset Levels. It was a last minute decision since I had recently returned from my trip to Romania and I'm flying to Sweden for another field recording trip in two days. It's been exhausting but I'm really happy I decided to go even though the weather wasn't 100% cooperative. Best of all, I managed to record a few interesting bits of ambience for my Wetland Atmosphere library.

I have to mention this is a new venue for the WSRS Spring meeting so I knew nothing about the place. The trip booking form mentioned Bitterns, Nightingales, Reed Warblers and other wetland species so it all sounded quite promising. Lodging was at Middlewick Cottages, a clean and cozy place just outside Glastonbury.

I was joined by my girlfriend who came along to exercise nature and wildlife photography. After a 4-hour drive we got there quite tired, but we went for a short recce nevertheless. Most of the others were already out at Ham Wall RSPB Nature Reserve so we decided to go there as well. The place looked promising, although it wasn't too far away from country roads. There were swarms of mosquitoes and flies around, but surprisingly I did not get bitten too badly. They did come up in some of the attendees' recordings.