Barnaby's Sands and Burrows Marshes are the last extensive areas of ungrazed saltmarsh on the Lancashire coast. Linked in with the mudflats continuing all the way to Knott End, the marshes are important for wintering waders and wildfowl and provide a good day out for both the inexperienced and seasoned birdwatcher.
Of the waders, Redshank shares the mud with Knot, Snipe and Common Sandpiper. Wigeon, Pink-footed Geese and Red-breasted Merganser are among the visiting wildfowl. Cormorants are frequent visitors with Peregrines and Hen Harriers seen over the marshes during the winter months. Skylark and Reed Bunting regularly breed on the reserve. You might also hear the distinctive 'purr-weet' call of the Lapwing.
The saltmarsh vegetation on both sites is made up of 'zones': lower or pioneer, middle and upper zones. The lower marsh is dominated by Cord-grass, the spread of which causes concern as it colonises open mud and areas of the marsh become pure Cord Grass. Sea-purslane, Sea-blite and Saltmarsh-grass can be found in the middle marsh. There isalso some Sea Lavender and Lax-flowered Sea-lavender, Sea Aster and Sea Arrow-grass. This type of vegetation community is rare in Lancashire because many of the species are rapidly eliminated by grazing. Upper sections of the mars
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Barnaby's Sands and Burrows Marsh