Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🍂Seasonal
Dogs welcome
Getting here
58.49578, -3.25916
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦40+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Lapwing and Chaffinch
- ✦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
- 🐦40+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Lapwing and Chaffinch
- ✦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 — Lapwing, Chaffinch, Pink-footed Goose +37 more · last seen 2025
Free
Birds — Lapwing, Chaffinch, Pink-footed Goose +37 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Creeping Buttercup, Common Cottongrass, Compact Rush +69 more · last seen 2018
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Good match
Insects — Green-veined White, Large Heath, Small Tortoiseshell +2 more · last seen 2018
Free
🏡Historic gardens
Moderate match
Historic site
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Great North Trail (John o' Groats)Mountain bike route223.7 km▾
Named routeLength 223.7 kmNational Cycle Network
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
602 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
602 records · National Biodiversity NetworkLapwing · Snow Goose · Great Skua · Jack Snipe · Golden Plover +17
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- Snow GooseAnser caerulescens2024
- Great SkuaStercorarius skua2024
- Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimus2024
- Golden PloverPluvialis apricaria2023
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2021
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2021
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2021
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2021
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2021
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2021
- SwallowHirundo rustica2021
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2021
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2021
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2021
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2021
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2021
- Great TitParus major2021
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2019
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2019
- Barn OwlTyto alba2018
- JackdawColoeus monedula2017
Weasel
Common Hawker
- Common HawkerAeshna juncea
Creeping Buttercup · Creeping Thistle · White Clover · Field Horsetail · Marsh-marigold +55
- Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
- Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense
- White CloverTrifolium repens
- Field HorsetailEquisetum arvense
- Marsh-marigoldCaltha palustris
- Compact RushJuncus conglomeratus
- Common SedgeCarex nigra
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
602 records · National Biodiversity NetworkLapwing · Snow Goose · Great Skua · Jack Snipe · Golden Plover +17
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- Snow GooseAnser caerulescens2024
- Great SkuaStercorarius skua2024
- Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimus2024
- Golden PloverPluvialis apricaria2023
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2021
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2021
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2021
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2021
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2021
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2021
- SwallowHirundo rustica2021
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2021
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2021
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2021
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2021
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2021
- Great TitParus major2021
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2019
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2019
- Barn OwlTyto alba2018
- JackdawColoeus monedula2017
Weasel
Common Hawker
- Common HawkerAeshna juncea
Creeping Buttercup · Creeping Thistle · White Clover · Field Horsetail · Marsh-marigold +55
- Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
- Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense
- White CloverTrifolium repens
- Field HorsetailEquisetum arvense
- Marsh-marigoldCaltha palustris
- Compact RushJuncus conglomeratus
- Common SedgeCarex nigra
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
