Gorgeous gifts and yummy treats Enjoy warming lunches, freshly-brewed teas and coffees, and delicious cakes overlooking Swan Lake in our Mere Side Café. In our shop, we’ve gorgeous gifts, books and toys for you – and every penny you spend in our shop and café goes to WHAT’S ON support our vital conservation work. THIS WINTER Everything you need for an at MARTIN MERE WETLAND CENTRE unforgettable day out... How to find us Our address – Fish Lane, Burscough, Lancashire, L40 0TA. By car – follow the brown duck signs from Junction 8 on the M61, Junction 3 on the M58 and Junction 27 on the M6. By bike – use New Lane Circuit and A Grand Tour of West Lancashire routes. By train – Burscough Bridge Interchange (2 miles), New Lane (0.8 miles) and Burscough Junction (3 miles). We’re open Visit us 364 days a year – that’s every day except Christmas Day. You can visit us between 9.30am – 6pm (4.30pm in winter and 3pm on Christmas Eve) and our last admission is one hour before closing. We’re buggy and wheelchair friendly! Get in touch Call us on 01704 895181 Email us at [email protected] Visit wwt.org.uk/martin-mere Connect with us @WWTMartinmere

WWT is the leading conservation charity that protects, preserves and promotes wildlife and wetlands. Come along, explore, get close to the Find out more animals, enjoy unique experiences and learn about these amazing habitats. WWT reg. charity in England & Wales, no. 1030884 and Scotland, no. SC039410 wwt.org.uk/martin-mere Cold, crisp mornings, amazing sunsets over the mere and an influx of wintering birds on the reserve makes winter a brilliant time to visit Martin Mere. Our centre becomes a true wildlife haven in winter with visitors from the Arctic including pintail and wigeon. The most impressive of these visitors though are the Icelandic whooper swans which migrate here each year and fill our reserve with the most spectacular noise. To celebrate the return of the swans, we have a number of activities for you to Sail to Santa My Great Winter find out more about this beautiful species, including our daily swan feed and with Elf Academy Adventure talk and our floodlit swans events, plus our My Great Winter Adventure activity 30 Nov – 23 Dec (weekends only), timed slots 24 Dec 2019 – 29 Feb 2020, Daily book to inspire and engage the younger generation. Have an extra-magical Christmas Families can learn all about the amazing Wrap up warm and spend some time in our amazing wetland landscape experience this year with our Sail to whooper swan this winter. Pick up your this winter! Santa with Elf Academy event. Sail on free activity book and collect your stamps a boat to visit Santa and his elves on as you complete your book. Activities Santa’s Island and get busy in the Elves’ include going through our swan pipe workshop decorating a biscuit, making experience, heading to a swan feed and talk Share your visit with us – we’re on reindeer food mix and much more! and making a swan craft in our craft room. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @WWTmartinmere. £10 per child. Booking essential. FREE.

Guided Winter Walks Floodlit Swans Puddle Jumping New Otter Enclosure Championships Coming this winter! Fridays, Dec 2019 & Jan, Feb 2020, Tues 7, 14, 21, 28 Jan 2020, 6.30-8pm 11am & 1.30pm 15 – 23 Feb 2020, 2pm daily Exciting changes are coming as our See one of nature’s most beautiful Asian Short-clawed Otters are getting Our reserve is a wildlife wonderland in This February half term, bring your spectacles of up to 2,000 whooper swans an extension to their enclosure. The winter. For an additional activity during friends and family and see who can make on our mere. At our Floodlit Swan evenings, new, larger area will have a number of your visit, take part in a Guided Winter the biggest, craziest splash at our Puddle you’ll be joined by one of our wardens in features, including panoramic windows, Walk around our reserve with one of Jumping Championships. There will be our Raines Observatory. They’ll tell you all a viewing area for visitors and a purpose- our experts. They’ll tell you all about daily winners so get practicing your perfect about the amazing whooper swan and their built private housing area for the otters. the wildlife you can see as you explore splash in our warm up areas and check migration journey. Come and see them in their new home our wetlands. out the other splash-tastic fun activities £5.90 (child), £9.38 (concession), this winter! we have on offer for a brilliant day out! FREE. £11.05 (adult). Booking essential. 50p per entry.