Blog - Martin Mere
When should the whooper swans arrive?
The graph below shows the numbers of Whooper Swans during weekly dawn counts in 2012. From beginning of October onwards we should start to see a steady increase in whooper swans arriving at Martin Mere (although the first ones have arrived at Martin Mere
23 September 2013
Mike Dilger returns to Martin Mere
The One Show with Mike Dilger are back at Martin Mere today filming a piece about the beavers. The show hope to be able to explore the underground tunnel system that the beavers have created and the piece will be going out in a couple of months so stay tu
13 September 2013
Did you see BBC Breakfast this morning?
John Maguire from BBC Breakfast was here at Martin Mere bright and early this morning to do live links into the national programme. John spoke to Tom Clare at 6.50am, 7.20am and 7.50am to discuss our project to fit bird diverters to power lines for the sa
10 September 2013
Building homes for people and wildlife
A leading house builder is ensuring both people and wildlife have a safe and comfortable place to live in Lancashire. Persimmon Homes is sponsoring a new beaver lodge at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre in Burscough, close to the company’s new homes devel
10 September 2013
One Show visiting Martin Mere
The One Show are visiting WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre on Friday 13 September along with presenter Mike Dilger to film a piece about the beavers at the Centre. The beavers first arrived at WWT Martin Mere in July 2007 as they have been busy beavers sinc
9 September 2013
Special diverters to save thousands of migrating birds
The skies above West Lancashire are now safer for thousands of migrating birds thanks to the installation of more than 150 special flight diverters. Engineers from Electricity North West have been working with the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) at Ma
30 August 2013
A visit by BBC Breakfast
John Maguire from BBC Breakfast has been at Martin Mere this morning filming for BBC Breakfast. The footage should be shown early next week about an exciting new project that WWT Martin Mere are involved in with Electricity North West. More information ab
29 August 2013
Chilean flamingo chick hatches at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre
WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre has successfully hatched a Chilean flamingo chick for the first time in 6 years as a result of the hot weather over the summer. The chick, now just 6 days old, is doing well and starting to come off the nest site. One other
26 August 2013
See our roundhouse village experience
Take a look at this video we have created for our roundhouse village experience. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mYpIDj1sl4&feature=youtu.be']
19 August 2013
Educational exhibit on dangerous plants unveiled at WWT Martin Mere
A colourful exhibit which helps gardeners and pond owners to avoid the spread of damaging invasive non-native plants has been opened at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre. Invasive non-native plants and animals cost the British economy at least £1.7bn each y
15 August 2013
New attraction opens at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre
[yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tx3NO9eYlE&feature=youtu.be'] An exciting new attraction has opened today at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre. The ‘Weird or Wonderful?’ (WOW) development celebrates fascinating bird shapes, sounds and ch
9 August 2013
New exhibit opening tomorrow: 4th new species
Friday, WWT Martin Mere will be officially opening our new Weird or Wonderful? development. As part of this development we have 4 new species coming to Martin Mere and everyday this week we will feature one of the new species before the launch on Friday
8 August 2013
New exhibit opening: 3rd new species
On Friday, WWT Martin Mere will be officially opening our new Weird or Wonderful? development. As part of this development we have 4 new species coming to Martin Mere and everyday this week we will feature one of the new species before the launch on Frida
7 August 2013
New exhibit opening: our 2nd new species
On Friday, WWT Martin Mere will be officially opening our new Weird or Wonderful? development. As part of this development we have 4 new species coming to Martin Mere and everyday this week we will feature one of the new species before the launch on Frida
6 August 2013
New species arrive for new exhibit opening on Friday
On Friday, WWT Martin Mere will be officially opening our new Weird or Wonderful? development. As part of this development we have 4 new species coming to Martin Mere and everyday this week we will feature one of the new species before the launch on Frida
5 August 2013