This cache is located on a footpath from the main Carpark. Care
must be taken as it is very near to a long straight, fairly busy
road.
The Cache is a small, black tupperware type box and is really
only suitable for very small swops and TB's though Geocoins will
fit in here nicely.
The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust is a wildfowl and wetland
conservation charity in the United Kingdom and the largest
international wetland conservation charity. Its patron is Queen
Elizabeth II.
It was founded in 1946 by the ornithologist and artist Sir Peter
Scott, initially as the Severn Wildfowl Trust. It has over 100,000
members and nine reserves with visitor centres, together covering
over 20 km² which support over 150,000 birds and receive over one
million visitors per year. The sites include seven SSSIs (site of
Special Scientific Interest), five SPAs (Special Protection Areas)
and five Ramsar sites.
WWT Martin Mere is a wetland nature reserve managed by the
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Burscough, Lancashire, England, six
miles from Ormskirk and ten miles from Southport (Merseyside). It
is one of nine reserves managed by the charity, and it is
designated an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest), an SPA
(Special Protection Area) and a Ramsar Site.
The name of the centre comes from the mere on the east side of
the reserve which is ringed by 11 observation hides. On the west
side of the reserve there are a number of pens providing habitats
for birds from Africa, Australasia, North America, South America,
Siberia, and Asia.
Martin Mere has its own "Domesday Book", listing (for 2002) 517
species of plant, 287 species of fungi, 1,368 species of
invertebrates. 284 species of bird have passed through the reserve,
as well as 28 species of mammal and 19 species of fish.
This reserve is at its best in winter, attracting huge flocks of
pink-footed geese and wigeon, many whooper swans and occasional
rarer birds such as the snow goose.
It is also excellent for wintering birds of prey such as hen
harrier, peregrine and merlin.
