Your recent sightings at Burton Mere Wetlands
Your recent sightings
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Reserve round-up: week commencing 8 July
Recent sightings A wealth of waders have decorated the reserve this week, with the breeding avocets gathering for migration, lapwings and redshank joined by south-bound black-tailed godwits , a couple of greenshank , single common and green...
Posted 12 Jul 2019 by Dan Trotman -
Reserve round-up: week commencing 1 July
Recent sightings With the breeding season coming to an end the fledgling numbers from all our breeding birds have been outstanding, including our top three waders, which are Avocets , Lapwings and redshanks . The bearded tits have also been down o...
Posted 05 Jul 2019 by JakeP -
Reserve round-up: week commencing 17 June
Recent sightings Well the weather has finally turned for the better! This, and the resulting receding water level has seen the return of the avocets to the Main Scrape along with lots of feeding black-tailed godwits , lapwings and redshanks . W...
Posted 23 Jun 2019 by Dan Trotman -
reserve round-up: week commencing 10 June
Recent sightings With heavy downpours this past week most of the pools and some paths had become flooded, however for many intrepid visitors who braved the weather there was still plenty to see. A new spoonbill has joined the group, bringing the...
Posted 16 Jun 2019 by JakeP -
Reserve round-up: week commencing 27 May
Recent sightings A changeable week of weather meant a lot less activity from our colourful winged insects, but the birds once again did not disappoint. The three spoonbills are still present, and have spent a lot of time on Bridge Pool offering go...
Posted 30 May 2019 by Dan Trotman -
Reserve round-up: week commencing 20 May
Recent sightings A mostly bright and sunny week for us here. Lots of beautiful butterflies, dragonflies, damselflies and even a bat was seen during the day over the meres. Common lizards surprising some visitor appearing inside the Bunker Hide. So...
Posted 26 May 2019 by Megan B