Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands / Inner Marsh Farm : 22nd April 2014
This morning visit to BMW and INF was our first chance to see the improvements made at the site and opened to the public the previous Friday. As we approached the site we were amazed to find that the main track from Puddington Lane had been tarmaced and the path down to the site itself had been given a heavy coating of stones so that the usually frequent and deep potholes had all been filled in. It was like a new site and this was just the start to some really impressive work conducted on the site making it a more systematically organised site taking in both the usual parts of the reserve and a walkway leading on from the far hide and going all the across to the path to the old Inner Marsh Farm hide. Additionally they have landscaped the site adding a couple of viewing blinds. It is their intention to sell Inner Marsh Farm for development and they intend putting their offices in the old barn on the BMW side of the site. This work has been done very well and the improvements are impressive. To to all this we had some very good sightings including a life tick !.