
Martin Mere is open seven days a week 9.30am-5.30pm
(9.30am - 4.30pm November - March)
Telephone: 01704 897020
Staff:
Andy Bunting (manager)
and Bernie Starkie
View from Our Window
A great start to the year birding wise on the reserve and from the shop!
So far we have recorded just over 70 species from our windows including
Bewicks Swan, Fieldfare, Redwing and Brambling. There are also
signs that spring is just around the corner with Ringed Plover, Redshank
and Oystercatcher returning to breed and certainly not long before the
first Avocet arrive.
As usual great views of raptors with Peregrines hunting daily, Common
Buzzard displaying on milder days, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel and Merlin.
For up to date wildlife information at martin mere wwt click on:
http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/martin-mere/wildlife-sightings
Or check out the new Twitter page for WWTMartinmere at
http://twitter.com/WWTMartinmere
If you pop into our shop we should be able to update you as to whats
been seen in recent days.
If you need some help in identifying birds, in focus manager Andy Bunting
is running an identification workshop in conjunction with the WWT running
throughout the year. Further details can be found on:
http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/martin-mere/events
Telescopes Top Three
1.GS52ED + HDF Zoom
2.Any Secondhand Telescope
3. ES80 ED + HDF20-60x
Digiscoping
The new 10 mega pixel Panasonic Lumix digiscoping kit is proving to
be very popular. Using the excellent tried and tested DCC mount the
kit can be combined with most telescopes. The camera operations are
the simplest yet for those with techno-phobia! Call in for a demonstration.
Andy Bunting also runs a Wildlife Photography and Digiscoping Workshop
in conjunction with the WWT. Further details can be found on:
http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/martin-mere/events
Or by calling WWT Martin Mere on 01704 895181
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WWT Martin Mere, Burscough, Ormskirk L40 0TA
01704 897020
Sales of binoculars
and telescopes in Lancashire
Situated in a purpose built
showroom on the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust Reserve (off the A59 at Burscough
Bridge) our shop has superb viewing facilities for testing optics. Since
January 1999 over 180 species have been listed from the shop, including:
Glossy Ibis, Black-winged Stilt, Cattle Egret, Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral
Sandpiper, Vagrant Canada Goose, American Green-winged Teal, Bittern,
Goshawk, Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier, Red Kite, Osprey, Honey Buzzard,
White-winged Black Tern, Spoonbill, Grey Phalarope and Great White Egret
.
For more information on the Martin Mere reserve go to www.wwt.org.uk
and click on Martin Mere.

There is plenty of free car parking and there
are trains to Burscough Bridge from Manchester, Wigan, Liverpool and Preston
further information 0345 484950. Buses run to Martin Mere from
Ormskirk (on Sundays only as far as Burscough Bridge). Further information
0870 608 2608

All sales support the conservation
work of WWT Martin Mere
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