British Garden Birds - WWT Martin Mere

The reserve comprises pools, scrapes and wet pastures for wildfowl and waders and small woodland tracts. There is also a collection of captive wildfowl, some of which are part of breeding programmes for endangered species around the World.

An annual pilgrimage, just before Christmas, is to Martin Mere to see the thousands of wildfowl including internationally important numbers of Whooper Swans and other ducks and geese. a few of the smaller Bewick's Swans are usually present, but in recent years these have become fewer in number. Something unusual is often present too, such as Ferruginous Duck, Green-winged Teal or Red-breasted Goose.

There are several hides around the reserve with wheelchair access to most of them. The visitors centre includes toilets, shop and cafeteria.

What You Might See
Bar-headed Goose Barn Owl Barnacle Goose Bewick's Swan Black-headed Gull Black-tailed Godwit Blackbird Blue Tit Brambling Canada Goose Carrion Crow Chaffinch Collared Dove Common Buzzard Common Gull Coot Cormorant Dunnock Ferruginous Duck Fieldfare Firecrest Gadwall Goldcrest Goldeneye Goldfinch Goosander Great Black-backed Gull	Great Tit Green-winged Teal Greenfinch Grey Heron Greylag Goose Hen Harrier Herring Gull House Sparrow Kestrel Kingfisher Lapwing Lesser Black-backed Gull Little Grebe Long-tailed Tit Magpie Mallard Merlin Mistle Thrush Moorhen Mute Swan Oystercatcher Peregrine Pheasant Pied Wagtail Pink-footed Goose Pintail Pochard	Red-breasted Goose Redshank Reed Bunting Ringed Plover Robin Ruddy Duck Ruddy Shelduck Ruff Scaup Shelduck Shoveler Siskin Skylark Snipe Snow Goose Song Thrush Sparrowhawk Starling Stock Dove Stonechat Teal Tree Sparrow Tufted Duck Whooper Swan Wigeon Wood Pigeon Wren