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🦅Birds✦Heritage🧺Picnic
Public accessDogs welcome741 ha
Getting here
54.12068, -0.90904
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦75+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Mute Swan and Redwing
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Castle Howard Coffee Shop — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦75+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Mute Swan and Redwing
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Castle Howard Coffee Shop — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
☕Café🅿️Parking🚻Toilets🐄Farm visit
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Mute Swan, Redwing, Gadwall +72 more · last seen 2026; Grazing marsh — lapwing, redshank, snipe and wintering wildfowl
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: THE TEMPLE OF THE FOUR WINDS INCLUDING RETAINING WALL; Historic site with public access
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Very strong match
café, toilets, car park
Free
Birds — Mute Swan, Redwing, Gadwall +72 more · last seen 2026; Lowland fens priority habitat
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
café, toilets
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Lowland fens — fen dragonflies and rare invertebrates; Insects — Willow Emerald Damselfly · last seen 2025
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby · 82 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Centenary WayWalking route134 km▾
Named routeLength 134 kmRegional walking route
Ebor WayWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
9 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
NCN National Route 166Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 166National Cycle Network
National Byway (Yorkshire)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
Yorkshire Wolds Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRound tripNational Cycle Network
NCN National Route 167Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 167National Cycle Network
National Byway (Malton Loop)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
Main RouteCycling route1.7 km▾
Named routeRef 167Length 1.7 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
39 public paths nearby
Public paths
No named routes yet. Public paths are shown on the map.
Photos
Walled garden, Castle Howard
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
26,666 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
26,666 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGadwall · Coot · Mallard · Goosander · Woodpigeon +49
- GadwallMareca strepera
- CootFulica atra2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- SiskinSpinus spinus2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- GoldeneyeBucephala clangula2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
🦌Mammals2 species
winterspring
2026▾
Roe Deer · Mole
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus
- MoleTalpa europaea
🐸Amphibians1 species
winterspring
2026▾
Common Toad
Willow Emerald Damselfly
- Willow Emerald DamselflyChalcolestes viridis
Cape Thread-moss · Common Crystalwort · Blunt-fruited Pottia · Recurved Rock-bristle · Juniper Haircap +27
- Cape Thread-mossOrthodontium lineare
- Common CrystalwortRiccia sorocarpa
- Blunt-fruited PottiaTortula caucasica
- Recurved Rock-bristleBlindiadelphus recurvatus
- Juniper HaircapPolytrichum juniperinum
- Dune Thread-mossBryum dichotomum
- Elegant Bristle-moss
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
26,666 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGadwall · Coot · Mallard · Goosander · Woodpigeon +49
- GadwallMareca strepera
- CootFulica atra2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- SiskinSpinus spinus2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- GoldeneyeBucephala clangula2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
🦌Mammals2 species
winterspring
2026▾
Roe Deer · Mole
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus
- MoleTalpa europaea
🐸Amphibians1 species
winterspring
2026▾
Common Toad
Willow Emerald Damselfly
- Willow Emerald DamselflyChalcolestes viridis
Cape Thread-moss · Common Crystalwort · Blunt-fruited Pottia · Recurved Rock-bristle · Juniper Haircap +27
- Cape Thread-mossOrthodontium lineare
- Common CrystalwortRiccia sorocarpa
- Blunt-fruited PottiaTortula caucasica
- Recurved Rock-bristleBlindiadelphus recurvatus
- Juniper HaircapPolytrichum juniperinum
- Dune Thread-mossBryum dichotomum
- Elegant Bristle-moss
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Orthotrichum pulchellum
Orthotrichum pulchellum
Frizzled PincushionPlenogemma phyllanthaFrizzled PincushionPlenogemma phyllanthaLesser Screw-mossSyntrichia virescensLesser Screw-mossSyntrichia virescensAwl-leaved Earth-mossPleuridium subulatumAwl-leaved Earth-mossPleuridium subulatumMarble Screw-mossSyntrichia papillosaMarble Screw-mossSyntrichia papillosaBruch's PincushionUlota bruchiiBruch's PincushionUlota bruchiiSwan's-neck Thyme-mossMnium hornumSwan's-neck Thyme-mossMnium hornumGreat Scented LiverwortConocephalum conicumGreat Scented LiverwortConocephalum conicumWoodsy Silk-mossPlagiothecium nemoraleWoodsy Silk-mossPlagiothecium nemoraleLeast CrystalwortRiccia subbifurcaLeast CrystalwortRiccia subbifurcaNarrow-leaved Pocket-mossFissidens gracilifoliusNarrow-leaved Pocket-mossFissidens gracilifoliusShaw's Bristle-mossLewinskya striataShaw's Bristle-mossLewinskya striataGreen Yoke-mossZygodon viridissimusGreen Yoke-mossZygodon viridissimusSilver-mossBryum argenteumSilver-mossBryum argenteumHooded Bristle-mossOrthotrichum cupulatumHooded Bristle-mossOrthotrichum cupulatumGreat Hairy Screw-mossSyntrichia ruralisGreat Hairy Screw-mossSyntrichia ruralisSand-hill Screw-mossSyntrichia ruraliformisSand-hill Screw-mossSyntrichia ruraliformisSilky Forklet-mossDicranella heteromallaSilky Forklet-mossDicranella heteromallaGreen Pocket-mossFissidens viridulusGreen Pocket-mossFissidens viridulusNeat Feather-mossPseudoscleropodium purumNeat Feather-mossPseudoscleropodium purumSmall Hairy Screw-mossSyntrichia laevipilaSmall Hairy Screw-mossSyntrichia laevipilaFragile Fork-mossDicranum tauricumFragile Fork-mossDicranum tauricumHart's-tongue Thyme-mossPlagiomnium undulatumHart's-tongue Thyme-mossPlagiomnium undulatumRough-stalked Feather-mossBrachythecium rutabulumRough-stalked Feather-mossBrachythecium rutabulumWhite-tipped Bristle-mossOrthotrichum diaphanumWhite-tipped Bristle-mossOrthotrichum diaphanumRevolute Beard-mossPseudocrossidium revolutumRevolute Beard-mossPseudocrossidium revolutumEvents & activities nearby
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