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New play area opens in Wild Walk
The Wild Walk, a family favourite at Martin Mere, now has an extra adventure with a new play area for children to enjoy.
26 May 2023
Latest Sightings
2 Temminck's Stints now feeding on woodend marsh. From the 22nd May we've had 1 but today a second has turned up the best views are either from the Rees hide or the Tomlinson hide. We have at least 1 Quail calling on the reserve and can be heard when you
25 May 2023
Fluffy flamingos hatch at Martin Mere!
WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre celebrates as Greater Flamingo chicks successfully hatch at the centre.
24 May 2023
latest sightings
Plenty of excitement following the black-winged stilt last week, although it only stayed for the day we didn't have to wait long for another rarity. News broke yesterday of a great reed warbler in the small reed bed in front of united utilities hide. Alth
22 May 2023
Stork chicks hatch at Martin Mere
Martin Mere Wetland Centre has had some cute new arrivals! White stork chicks have hatched and they are absolutely adorable.We welcomed the new chicks in mid-May. Last year, we hatched and raised two white stork chicks for the first time, with this year b
19 May 2023
Quentin Blake art draws people to UK wetlands
WWT has agreed a year-long partnership with renowned illustrator Sir Quentin Blake, bringing his art to our ten wetland sites and an exhibition of rarely seen works to selected centres.
17 May 2023
Black-winged stilt
The best bird of today was a Black-winged Stilt seen from the Ron Barker it flew at 1pm towards woodend marsh and has been refound at the back of the Mere at 14:50. The photo here was taken by John Napier tday at the Ron Barker hide. Looking back through
15 May 2023
Latest Sightings
Breeding season is well underway, with more and more eggs and chicks cropping up every day. We surveyed the mere for black headed gull nests today: there was a total of 591 nests and 1140 eggs! The islands were also crawling with chicks, some just hatched
11 May 2023
New Bird Observatory opens at Martin Mere
Martin Mere is excited to announce the new opening of the Bird Observatory.
5 May 2023
Latest Sightings
Plenty of activity on the reserve currently with new arrivals and lots of activity from breeding birds. The mere is constantly busy with black-headed gulls that are sitting on nests and in amongst them there is often the odd Mediterranean gull or two. One
4 May 2023
New Hides Officially Open!
WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre is pleased to announce the opening of two new hides - Rees Hide and Tomlinson Hide. In early February, Martin Mere announced the plans to build the new hides and asked the public for their name suggestions. We received over
28 April 2023
Latest Sightings
The reed bed is now alive with warblers. The first grasshopper warbler was heard yesterday and the sedge and reed warblers are growing in numbers. A whitethroat was seen near Gordon Taylor hide yesterday. Blackcaps have been heard along the nature trail.T
27 April 2023
Latest Sightings
Our first yellow wagtail of the year was found on the reserve on the 16th along with our first garganeys of the year, a male and female were present throughout the day, on the mere in the morning and seen later in the day from Ron Barker. 10 wheatears wer
18 April 2023
Latest Sightings
Spring migrants keep on coming with our first House martin of the year on the 12th, and first reed warbler was singing in the reedbed this morning. We've been having a good passage of wheatears over the past few days with 7 behind Woodend marsh on the 12t
14 April 2023
Sightings
Spring is on its way! And it’s bringing the warblers and the waders with it.The warblers have made their way back from as far south as southern Africa. We’ve had sedge and willow warblers joining the cetti’s warbler on the reedbed. Chiffchaffs have
7 April 2023