After the excitement of the Rose-coloured Starling at St. Helens, I suppose that Burton was going to be a bit of a let down but we just had an hour so we looked around on the main scrape and down at the barn then we went to the first blind where a Bearded Tit had been seen recently but we didn’t have much luck on that account. That really would have made a special birding day.
Even with just an hour there we still managed to get thirty-two species including a nice flock of Linnets, three Snipe and a Marsh Harrier and that was just around the reception hide area and the first part of the reed bed.
Around the time of the high-ish tide at 1pm (9.21m) we went on to Riverbank Road where we got Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier and Great Egret. We really are spoiled having the Wirral so close to hand.
Bird Sightings : Burton Mere Wetlands : 28th October 2018
| Pink-footed Goose | 60 |
| Greylag Goose | 60 |
| Canada Goose | 140 |
| Mute Swan | 8 |
| Black Swan | 2 |
| Common Shelduck | 1 |
| Eurasian Wigeon | 10 |
| Mallard | 30 |
| Northern Shoveler | 10 |
| Common Teal | 60 |
| Tufted Duck | 2 |
| Common Pheasant | 1 |
| Eurasian Marsh Harrier | 1 |
| Common Buzzard | 1 |
| Common Moorhen | 4 |
| Common Coot | 20 |
| Northern Lapwing | 50 |
| Black-tailed Godwit | 10 |
| Common Snipe | 3 |
| Black-headed Gull | 60 |
| Common Wood Pigeon | 12 |
| Carrion Crow | 10 |
| Coal Tit | 1 |
| Great Tit | 4 |
| Eurasian Blue Tit | 3 |
| European Robin | 1 |
| Eurasian Blackbird | 2 |
| Pied Wagtail | 1 |
| Common Chaffinch | 1 |
| European Greenfinch | 4 |
| European Goldfinch | 12 |
| Common Linnet | 24 |
Bird Sightings : Riverbank Road : 28th October 2018
| Common Shelduck | 20 |
| Common Teal | 12 |
| Great Cormorant | 16 |
| Grey Heron | 1 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| Little Egret | 20 |
| Eurasian Marsh Harrier | 1 |
| Hen Harrier | 1 |
| Eurasian Oystercatcher | 100 |
| Northern Lapwing | 20 |
| Common Redshank | 20 |
| Eurasian Curlew | 2 |
| Black-headed Gull | 8 |
| Common Wood Pigeon | 4 |
| Carrion Crow | 20 |
| Mistle Thrush | 1 |
| Common Starling | 20 |