Birding Group Visit to RSPB Burton Mere Wetland 18th June 2012
Our birding group day out this week was on a Monday rather than a Tuesday and this was to match up with the high tide which should push more birds onto the reserve. As it happens there has been so much rain recently that the water levels were very high on the reserves and this seemed to mean that the high tide had little effect really. However Burton Mere is usually good so we were hoping for a good morning. We started at the visitor centre where by far the biggest attraction was the presence of a fair number of Avocets and lots of Avocet chicks. Their notice board had it as 34 Avocets from 13 pairs. They were also listing breeding Lapwings and Redshank as well as Common Tern nesting which they said was rare for them but we didn’t manage to see them at all.