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Thursday 11 and Friday 12 December

Some of our birds will be off display on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 December, while vets carry out some routine health checks. If you would still like to visit us on these days, admission tickets will only be available on arrival and will be reduced to £10 an adult and £5 a child.

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Latest Sightings

Latest Sightings

Today at Martin Mere we conducted the monthly WeBS survey of all of our wetland birds and here's what we saw!

  • 15 Avocet
  • 1 Barnacle Goose
  • 670 Black-headed Gull
  • 62 Black-tailed Godwit
  • 116 Canada Goose
  • 47 Coot
  • 32 Cormorant
  • 2 Gadwall
  • 1 Garganey
  • 1 Great Black-backed Gull
  • 2 Great White Egret
  • 88 Greylag Goose
  • 55 Lapwing
  • 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • 2 Little Egret
  • 290 Mallard
  • 116 Moorhen
  • 1 Mute Swan
  • 57 Oystercatcher
  • 48 Pintail
  • 5 Ruff
  • 245 Shelduck
  • 78 Shoveler
  • 166 Teal
  • 16 Tufted Duck
  • 20 Whooper Swan
  • 119 Wigeon

We also had sightings of Marsh Harriers, Buzzards, Stonechats and Stock Doves as well as all the regulars at Janet Kear!

Feature Image of an Avocet

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