Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 4th August 2011
We drove up to Martin Mere to collect the new scope I had ordered but while we were there we had a look around the hides as well. The weather wasn’t brilliant and it had been raining heavily so the scrapes were under water and a lot of the birds had flown off for the day. We had hoped to see the Green Sandpipers that were on the sightings board and which the web site had indicated had been around for a couple of days so we walked down to the usually reliable Ron Barker Hide. From here, though, we didn’t see too much out of the ordinary. There were Lapwing and Shelduck and a single Black-tailed Godwit but no Green Sandpiper. We were thinking that we would take a look at the long hide overlooking The Mere but just as we were about to leave a chap told us he had just come from the Hale Hide where he had seen four Green Sandpipers.