Visit to RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands 10th March 2012
After our second morning at Parkgate we returned to Manchester via Burton Mere Wetlands reserve which is just down the road from Parkgate and partly overlooks the same bit of estuary. The newly built reception and hides is very good and the site is very mature already. They have not as yet built the walkways that may eventually join up the two hides they have with the hide on the opposite side of the marsh which is, of course, Inner Marsh Farm. When we were there that hide still seemed to be full of people so it obviously hasn’t been abandoned in favour of Burton Mere Wetlands. It does have the advantage that there is no charge to visit the Inner Marsh Farm site and there is at Burton Mere.