Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🦋Insects
Dogs welcome
Getting here
57.32810, -7.37634
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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 Tufted Duck and Lapwing
- ✦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
- 🐦75+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Tufted Duck and Lapwing
- ✦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 — Tufted Duck, Lapwing, Greylag Goose +72 more · last seen 2025
Free
Birds — Tufted Duck, Lapwing, Greylag Goose +72 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Scathophaga stercoraria, Glaucous Shears, Red Chestnut +29 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Good match
Plants — Rue-leaved Saxifrage, Xanthidium octocorne, Euastrum bidentatum +14 more · last seen 2025
Free
🏡Historic gardens
Moderate match
Historic site
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Hebridean Way (Hiking)Walking route252 km▾
Hiking route along the length of the Outer Hebrides
Named routeLength 252 kmPoint-to-pointRegional walking route
Machair WayWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Hebridean WayCycling route▾
Named routeRef HWRegional cycle route
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
4,253 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
4,253 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds48 species
springsummer
2025▾
Rock Dove · Greylag Goose · Lapwing · Oystercatcher · Tufted Duck +43
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- RedshankTringa totanus
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Common GullLarus canus
- CorncrakeCrex crex2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- CurlewNumenius arquata
- TealAnas crecca
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- LinnetLinaria cannabina
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- CuckooCuculus canorus
- RavenCorvus corax
- Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
- Golden PloverPluvialis apricaria
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- TwiteLinaria flavirostris
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
Scathophaga stercoraria · Glaucous Shears · Red Chestnut · Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet · Dark Sword-grass +19
- Scathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercoraria
- Glaucous ShearsPapestra biren
- Red ChestnutCerastis rubricosa
- Dark-barred Twin-spot CarpetXanthorhoe ferrugata
- Dark Sword-grassAgrotis ipsilon
- Flame CarpetXanthorhoe designata
- Tephrochlamys rufiventris
Rue-leaved Saxifrage
- Rue-leaved SaxifrageSaxifraga tridactylites
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
4,253 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds48 species
springsummer
2025▾
Rock Dove · Greylag Goose · Lapwing · Oystercatcher · Tufted Duck +43
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- RedshankTringa totanus
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Common GullLarus canus
- CorncrakeCrex crex2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- CurlewNumenius arquata
- TealAnas crecca
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- LinnetLinaria cannabina
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- CuckooCuculus canorus
- RavenCorvus corax
- Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
- Golden PloverPluvialis apricaria
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- TwiteLinaria flavirostris
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
Scathophaga stercoraria · Glaucous Shears · Red Chestnut · Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet · Dark Sword-grass +19
- Scathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercoraria
- Glaucous ShearsPapestra biren
- Red ChestnutCerastis rubricosa
- Dark-barred Twin-spot CarpetXanthorhoe ferrugata
- Dark Sword-grassAgrotis ipsilon
- Flame CarpetXanthorhoe designata
- Tephrochlamys rufiventris
Rue-leaved Saxifrage
- Rue-leaved SaxifrageSaxifraga tridactylites
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Tephrochlamys rufiventris2024
Tephrochlamys rufiventris2024
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