Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🍂Seasonal
Dogs welcome
Getting here
57.29118, -6.33352
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦98+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Hooded Crow and Oystercatcher
- ✦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
- 🐦98+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Hooded Crow and Oystercatcher
- ✦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 — Hooded Crow, Oystercatcher, Grey Heron +95 more · last seen 2025
Free
Birds — Hooded Crow, Oystercatcher, Grey Heron +95 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Meadowsweet, Eared Willow, Maidenhair Spleenwort +149 more · last seen 2026
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Good match
Insects — Scotch Argus, Hawthorn Shieldbug, Green Nettle Weevil +6 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍄Mushroom foraging
Good match
Fungi — Yellow Brain, Baudoinia, Sycamore Tarspot · last seen 2019
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Fairy pools routeWalking route▾
Eynort LoopWalking route▾
Bealach BhreatailWalking route▾
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
1,556 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
1,556 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGrey Heron · Swallow · Teal · Blackbird · Hooded Crow +31
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- TealAnas crecca
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- GreenshankTringa nebularia2023
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- RavenCorvus corax
- CurlewNumenius arquata
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator2024
- CorncrakeCrex crex2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2023
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos2023
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2023
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2024
- EiderSomateria mollissima2024
- CuckooCuculus canorus2023
- DunlinCalidris alpina2023
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2023
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2022
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2022
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2021
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2021
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2021
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2021
🐸Amphibians2 species
springsummer
2025▾
Common Frog · Palmate Newt
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Palmate NewtLissotriton helveticus2024
🐝Insects5 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Hawthorn Shieldbug · Green Nettle Weevil · Fever Fly · Red-legged Shieldbug · Cheilosia illustrata
- Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale
- Green Nettle WeevilPhyllobius pomaceus
- Fever FlyDilophus febrilis2024
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2024
- Cheilosia illustrataCheilosia illustrata2023
Eared Willow · Wild Angelica · Gorse · Maidenhair Spleenwort · Meadowsweet +74
- Eared WillowSalix aurita2025
- Wild AngelicaAngelica sylvestris2025
- GorseUlex
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes2025
- MeadowsweetFilipendula ulmaria2025
- SneezewortAchillea ptarmica2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
1,556 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGrey Heron · Swallow · Teal · Blackbird · Hooded Crow +31
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- TealAnas crecca
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- GreenshankTringa nebularia2023
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- RavenCorvus corax
- CurlewNumenius arquata
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator2024
- CorncrakeCrex crex2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2023
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos2023
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2023
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2024
- EiderSomateria mollissima2024
- CuckooCuculus canorus2023
- DunlinCalidris alpina2023
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2023
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2022
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2022
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2021
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2021
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2021
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2021
🐸Amphibians2 species
springsummer
2025▾
Common Frog · Palmate Newt
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Palmate NewtLissotriton helveticus2024
🐝Insects5 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Hawthorn Shieldbug · Green Nettle Weevil · Fever Fly · Red-legged Shieldbug · Cheilosia illustrata
- Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale
- Green Nettle WeevilPhyllobius pomaceus
- Fever FlyDilophus febrilis2024
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2024
- Cheilosia illustrataCheilosia illustrata2023
Eared Willow · Wild Angelica · Gorse · Maidenhair Spleenwort · Meadowsweet +74
- Eared WillowSalix aurita2025
- Wild AngelicaAngelica sylvestris2025
- GorseUlex
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes2025
- MeadowsweetFilipendula ulmaria2025
- SneezewortAchillea ptarmica2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
