53.67694,-2.98096
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Marshside is one of the best places for wildlife in the UK.
Top things to do in Spring
- Look out for displaying lapwings tumbling through the air
- See if you can find the hares frantically chasing each other around
- Come and see the spring's first avocets
Top things to do in Summer
- Look out for common blue butterflies and cinnabar moths along the reserve footpaths
- Come and watch the wader chicks - they’ll be congregating around the pools close to the hides
- Listen for whitethroats, sedge warblers and reed warblers, all singing enthusiastically
Top things to do in Autumn
- Enjoy the arrival of spectacular flocks of black-tailed godwits and noisy pink-footed geese
- See if you can spot a merlin, often sitting on a fence post or chasing flocks of skylarks
- Marvel at the vast flocks of knots and dunlins feeding out on the mudflats
Top things to do in Winter
- Take a walk along the seawall and listen to the whistling flocks of wigeons
- Look for hen harriers, peregrines, merlins and short-eared owls hunting over the great carpet of saltmarsh
- Walk out along the old sand Haul Road to enjoy the saltmarsh and the wading birds on the mudflats (make sure you know the time of the tides!)
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