Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 6th June 2011
A good day out at Martin Mere. We started off by going straight down to hide H3 – the Ron Barker Hide where we saw a lot of the usual suspects. Particular birds of interest we saw were a single Whooper Swan. This was a lame bird who had not managed to migrate to Iceland with the other Whoopers in Spring. We spoke to the chap at the “In Focus” shop and he said that it had sustained an injury to one of its wings and was quite badly damaged but the rangers had decided not to kill it since it didn’t seem to be in pain and eventually it had managed to recover reasonably well. It wasn’t clear whether it was able to fly further than a short distance and as this is a first year bird it is not obvious either whether it will be able to migrate with the others when they again leave next spring.