50.826516,-1.025254
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Photo by RSPB - Sophie McCallum
Top things to do in Spring
- Hear curlews calling noisily as they set off northwards to their breeding grounds
- See noisy Mediterranean and black-headed gulls and Sandwich terns displaying in their pre-breeding rituals
- Admire the swathes of purple sea thrift coming into bloom on the saltmarsh
Top things to do in Summer
- Watch the tern and gull feeding flocks
- Juvenile gulls and terns appear - listen for their raucous calls
- See the sea lavender coming into bloom on the saltmarsh
Top things to do in Autumn
- See if you can spot some of the returning grey plovers, many still in magnificent breeding plumage
- If you're lucky, you might see an osprey, on its way south, feeding on the harbour's fish
- Watch out for red admiral butterflies flying south to Europe
Top things to do in Winter
- Look through the dark-bellied brent geese for youngsters to see if they've had a good breeding season in the Arctic
- If there's panic, a peregrine may be hunting and causing chaos
- Watch out for big flocks of waders feeding and roosting