Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🍂Seasonal
Dogs welcome
Getting here
56.09984, -5.77789
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦78+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Raven and Great Black-backed Gull
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦78+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Raven and Great Black-backed Gull
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Raven, Great Black-backed Gull, Hooded Crow +75 more · last seen 2023
Free
Birds — Raven, Great Black-backed Gull, Hooded Crow +75 more · last seen 2023
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Common Cottongrass, Heath Milkwort, Marsh Arrowgrass +193 more · last seen 2016
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Good match
Insects — Green Hairstreak, Small Copper, Marsh Fritillary · last seen 2010
Free
🏡Historic gardens
Moderate match
Historic site
Varies
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
1,027 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
1,027 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWhooper Swan · Chaffinch · Great Tit · Great Black-backed Gull · Robin +14
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2022
- Great TitParus major2022
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2022
- RobinErithacus rubecula2022
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2022
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2022
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2022
- RavenCorvus corax2022
- SiskinSpinus spinus2022
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix2022
- ShagGulosus aristotelis2022
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2022
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2022
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2022
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2022
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2022
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2021
- Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula2016
Feral Goat · Red Deer
- Feral GoatCapra hircus
- Red DeerCervus elaphus
🐸Amphibians1 species
autumn
2023▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
White Water-lily · Brown Bent · Greater Tussock-sedge · Dioecious Sedge · Lesser Spearwort +143
- White Water-lilyNymphaea alba
- Brown BentAgrostis vinealis
- Greater Tussock-sedgeCarex paniculata
- Dioecious SedgeCarex dioica
- Lesser SpearwortRanunculus flammula
- Delicate StonewortChara virgata
- Common ButterwortPinguicula vulgaris
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
1,027 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWhooper Swan · Chaffinch · Great Tit · Great Black-backed Gull · Robin +14
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2022
- Great TitParus major2022
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2022
- RobinErithacus rubecula2022
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2022
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2022
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2022
- RavenCorvus corax2022
- SiskinSpinus spinus2022
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix2022
- ShagGulosus aristotelis2022
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2022
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2022
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2022
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2022
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2022
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2021
- Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula2016
Feral Goat · Red Deer
- Feral GoatCapra hircus
- Red DeerCervus elaphus
🐸Amphibians1 species
autumn
2023▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
White Water-lily · Brown Bent · Greater Tussock-sedge · Dioecious Sedge · Lesser Spearwort +143
- White Water-lilyNymphaea alba
- Brown BentAgrostis vinealis
- Greater Tussock-sedgeCarex paniculata
- Dioecious SedgeCarex dioica
- Lesser SpearwortRanunculus flammula
- Delicate StonewortChara virgata
- Common ButterwortPinguicula vulgaris
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
