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🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🦋Insects
Dogs welcome
Getting here
57.54610, -6.38574
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦48+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Chaffinch and Robin
- ✦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
- 🐦48+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Chaffinch and Robin
- ✦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 — Chaffinch, Robin, Blackbird +45 more · last seen 2025
Free
Birds — Chaffinch, Robin, Blackbird +45 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Golden-ringed Dragonfly, Small Heath, Limnephilus centralis +19 more · last seen 2023
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Brook-side Feather-moss, Great Scented Liverwort, Lesser Celandine +220 more · last seen 2023
Free
🍄Mushroom foraging
Good match
Fungi — Nettle Clustercup Rust, Dryad's Saddle · last seen 2023
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Wildlife to spot
1,332 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
1,332 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds2 species
winterautumn
2025▾
Storm Petrel · Barnacle Goose
- Storm PetrelHydrobates pelagicus
- Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
🐝Insects6 species
springsummer
2023▾
Golden-ringed Dragonfly · Small Heath · Green Tiger Beetle · Melanostoma scalare · Tipula varipennis +1
- Golden-ringed DragonflyCordulegaster boltonii
- Small HeathCoenonympha pamphilus
- Green Tiger BeetleCicindela campestris
- Melanostoma scalareMelanostoma scalare
- Tipula varipennisTipula varipennis
- Empis tessellataEmpis tessellata
Foxglove · Devil's-bit Scabious · English Stonecrop · Jointed Rush · Pignut +142
- FoxgloveDigitalis purpurea
- Devil's-bit ScabiousSuccisa pratensis
- English StonecropSedum anglicum
- Jointed RushJuncus articulatus
- PignutConopodium majus
- Water AvensGeum rivale
- Ribwort PlantainPlantago lanceolata
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
1,332 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds2 species
winterautumn
2025▾
Storm Petrel · Barnacle Goose
- Storm PetrelHydrobates pelagicus
- Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
🐝Insects6 species
springsummer
2023▾
Golden-ringed Dragonfly · Small Heath · Green Tiger Beetle · Melanostoma scalare · Tipula varipennis +1
- Golden-ringed DragonflyCordulegaster boltonii
- Small HeathCoenonympha pamphilus
- Green Tiger BeetleCicindela campestris
- Melanostoma scalareMelanostoma scalare
- Tipula varipennisTipula varipennis
- Empis tessellataEmpis tessellata
Foxglove · Devil's-bit Scabious · English Stonecrop · Jointed Rush · Pignut +142
- FoxgloveDigitalis purpurea
- Devil's-bit ScabiousSuccisa pratensis
- English StonecropSedum anglicum
- Jointed RushJuncus articulatus
- PignutConopodium majus
- Water AvensGeum rivale
- Ribwort PlantainPlantago lanceolata
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
