All Nature Reserves
Nature Reserves in Scotland
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0-1346 532017Email: strathbeg@rspb.org.ukIf you’re new to birdwatching, what better way to see the beauty of birds close up than by visiting a seabird cliff colony? The spectacular cliffs at Fowlsheugh are packed with 130,000 breeding seabirds in the spring and summer, including guillemots, razorbills and kittiwakes. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0-300 067 6200There’s a fascinating network of tracks to explore and the level ground makes it easy. Hill 99 is the only waymarked trail, but you can use the Culbin map and numbered posts at path junctions to explore this unique, diverse and ever-changing coastal forest. Read more...
- Save to ListThe stark beauty of empty sand dunes is complemented by the call of eider ducks, wafting like gentle gossiping across the Ythan estuary. With the constant shifting of the dunes, layers of history have come and gone, revealing the half buried remains of a twelfth century church. Bird life is plentiful and you can watch the summer acrobatics of diving Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +Wallacebank Wood is an ancient semi-natural wood with oak, Scots pine, beech and larch, and an understorey of alder, holly, hazel and rowa Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +Situated on steep slopes next to the Slitrig Water, Whitlaw Wood comprises native ash, elm and hazel woodland with a rich… Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +Woodhall Dean, on the edge of the Lammermuir Hills, is an ancient semi-natural woodland dominated by sessile oak. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +Yetholm Loch, on the edge of the Cheviots, is an important area for breeding and wintering wildfowl. At the southern end… Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +Hermaness is one of Shetland’s truly special places – a dramatic clifftop National Nature Reserve that is also a spectacular seabird city – home to more than 100,000 birds in the breeding season, including countless puffins, a huge gannetry and the world’s third largest colony of bonxies – great skuas. The awesome cliffs look out to the serrated rocks of Read more...
- Save to Listelcome to the Fair Isle Bird Observatory and Guesthouse. We are proud of our long tradition of welcoming visitors to Fair Isle and of our continuous scientific research into seabirds and bird migration since 1948. The Observatory, built in 2010, offers 3-star accommodation for visito Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0-1950 460800Visiting Mousa is an unforgettable experience. On the short ferry ride to the island, you might be fortunate enough to see harbour porpoises and other marine mammals. In August, the island is home to over 200 hauled-out common seals which will be moulting Read more...