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Dunyvaig Castle

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55.63360, -6.12297

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Visiting this summer

Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now

🐦79+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Hooded Crow and Robin
✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
🧺Picnic area on site — summer afternoons here are an easy, low-cost day out

🌤️ Visiting this summer

🐦79+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Hooded Crow and Robin
✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
🧺Picnic area on site — summer afternoons here are an easy, low-cost day out

Good to know

🐕Dogs welcome

Picnic spot

Best for

5 activities

Bird watching

Very strong match

Birds — Hooded Crow, Robin, Rook +76 more · last seen 2026; Birds — Hooded Crow, Robin, Rook +76 more · last seen 2026

Free

Wildlife

Very strong match

Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals; Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals

Free

Heritage

Strong match

Historic site

Free

Mushroom foraging

Good match

Fungi — Stinking Dapperling, Ochre Brittlegill, Fruity Brittlegill +1 more · last seen 2025; Fungi — Stinking Dapperling, Ochre Brittlegill, Fruity Brittlegill +1 more · last seen 2025

Varies

Insect spotting

Good match

Insects — Lepidostoma hirtum, Oecetis ochracea, Hydropsyche instabilis +12 more · last seen 2024; Insects — Lepidostoma hirtum, Oecetis ochracea, Hydropsyche instabilis +12 more · last seen 2024

Free

Trails nearby

Within roughly 5 km

🚶

Walking

1 signed route nearby

Signed route nearby

Three Distilleries PathwayWalking route5.5 km

Named routeLength 5.5 kmLocal walking route

🚴

Cycling

1 signed route nearby

Signed route nearby

Three Distilleries PathwayCycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

Wildlife to spot

6,321 records · National Biodiversity Network

Wildlife to spot

6,321 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds71 species

springsummerautumn

2026

Swallow · Greylag Goose · Grey Heron · Blackbird · Oystercatcher +66

SwallowHirundo rustica2025
Greylag GooseAnser anser
Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2024
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
Mute SwanCygnus olor2024
Hooded CrowCorvus cornix2024
MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2023
Great TitParus major2024
SiskinSpinus spinus2024
WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator2024
TealAnas crecca2024
RavenCorvus corax2023
PheasantPhasianus colchicus2023
JackdawColoeus monedula2023
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
House MartinDelichon urbicum2024
RobinErithacus rubecula2024
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
ShagGulosus aristotelis2024
Herring GullLarus argentatus2023
EiderSomateria mollissima2023
CurlewNumenius arquata2023
WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2023
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2023
StarlingSturnus vulgaris2023
StonechatSaxicola rubicola2023
RookCorvus frugilegus2023
Greenland White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons flavirostris2023
Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
WaxwingBombycilla garrulus2025
GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos2024
GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
CrossbillLoxia curvirostra2024
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2024
Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
Great Northern DiverGavia immer2024
Common GuillemotUria aalge2023
Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret2023
KittiwakeRissa tridactyla2023
PuffinFratercula arctica2023
RazorbillAlca torda2023
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula2023
Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinus2023
Black GuillemotCepphus grylle2023
WheatearOenanthe oenanthe2023
LinnetLinaria cannabina2023
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea2023
SwiftApus apus2023
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2023
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2023
Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2023
Common GullLarus canus2022
WigeonMareca penelope2022
Rock DoveColumba livia2022
Rock PipitAnthus petrosus2022
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2021

🦌

Mammals5 species

summer

2023

Hedgehog · Fallow Deer · Red Deer · Grey Seal · Harbour Seal

HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
Fallow DeerDama dama
Red DeerCervus elaphus
Grey SealHalichoerus grypus
Harbour SealPhoca vitulina

🐝

Insects15 species

summer

2024

Lepidostoma hirtum · Hydropsyche siltalai · Limnephilus sparsus · Potamophylax cingulatus · Oecetis ochracea +10

Lepidostoma hirtumLepidostoma hirtum
Hydropsyche siltalaiHydropsyche siltalai
Limnephilus sparsusLimnephilus sparsus
Potamophylax cingulatusPotamophylax cingulatus
Oecetis ochraceaOecetis ochracea
Hydropsyche instabilisHydropsyche instabilis
Rhyacophila dorsalis

🍄

Fungi3 species

summerautumn

2025

Stinking Dapperling · Ochre Brittlegill · Fruity Brittlegill

Stinking DapperlingLepiota cristata
Ochre BrittlegillRussula ochroleuca
Fruity BrittlegillRussula queletii

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

6,321 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds71 species

springsummerautumn

2026

Swallow · Greylag Goose · Grey Heron · Blackbird · Oystercatcher +66

SwallowHirundo rustica2025
Greylag GooseAnser anser
Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2024
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
Mute SwanCygnus olor2024
Hooded CrowCorvus cornix2024
MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2023
Great TitParus major2024
SiskinSpinus spinus2024
WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator2024
TealAnas crecca2024
RavenCorvus corax2023
PheasantPhasianus colchicus2023
JackdawColoeus monedula2023
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
House MartinDelichon urbicum2024
RobinErithacus rubecula2024
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
ShagGulosus aristotelis2024
Herring GullLarus argentatus2023
EiderSomateria mollissima2023
CurlewNumenius arquata2023
WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2023
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2023
StarlingSturnus vulgaris2023
StonechatSaxicola rubicola2023
RookCorvus frugilegus2023
Greenland White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons flavirostris2023
Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
WaxwingBombycilla garrulus2025
GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos2024
GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
CrossbillLoxia curvirostra2024
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2024
Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
Great Northern DiverGavia immer2024
Common GuillemotUria aalge2023
Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret2023
KittiwakeRissa tridactyla2023
PuffinFratercula arctica2023
RazorbillAlca torda2023
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula2023
Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinus2023
Black GuillemotCepphus grylle2023
WheatearOenanthe oenanthe2023
LinnetLinaria cannabina2023
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea2023
SwiftApus apus2023
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2023
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2023
Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2023
Common GullLarus canus2022
WigeonMareca penelope2022
Rock DoveColumba livia2022
Rock PipitAnthus petrosus2022
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2021

🦌

Mammals5 species

summer

2023

Hedgehog · Fallow Deer · Red Deer · Grey Seal · Harbour Seal

HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
Fallow DeerDama dama
Red DeerCervus elaphus
Grey SealHalichoerus grypus
Harbour SealPhoca vitulina

🐝

Insects15 species

summer

2024

Lepidostoma hirtum · Hydropsyche siltalai · Limnephilus sparsus · Potamophylax cingulatus · Oecetis ochracea +10

Lepidostoma hirtumLepidostoma hirtum
Hydropsyche siltalaiHydropsyche siltalai
Limnephilus sparsusLimnephilus sparsus
Potamophylax cingulatusPotamophylax cingulatus
Oecetis ochraceaOecetis ochracea
Hydropsyche instabilisHydropsyche instabilis
Rhyacophila dorsalis

🍄

Fungi3 species

summerautumn

2025

Stinking Dapperling · Ochre Brittlegill · Fruity Brittlegill

Stinking DapperlingLepiota cristata
Ochre BrittlegillRussula ochroleuca
Fruity BrittlegillRussula queletii

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

Photos

📷 Andrew Wood · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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