51.774610,0.838851
- Grid ref: TL959122
- Lat/long: 51.774610,0.838851
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Please request a parking permit in advance by contacting the reserve.
Top things to do in Spring
- See and hear displaying birds establishing breeding territories
- Listen for reed and sedge warblers, just back from Africa to breed
- Look out for flocks of passage whimbrels feeding on the grassland
Top things to do in Summer
- Spot migrating waders such as spotted redshanks, greenshanks and ruffs, returning from the north
- Watch young marsh harriers make their first faltering flights
- Look out for dragonflies and damselflies hunting over shallow pools
Top things to do in Autumn
- Look out for flocks of golden and grey plovers roosting on the saltings at high tide
- Wigeons and teals return to the open water
- Listen for the 'ping ping' of feeding flocks of bearded tits in the reeds
Top things to do in Winter
- Count thousands of brent geese feeding on the fields
- Look out for wintering birds of prey, such as hen harriers and merlins
- Find divers, grebes and seaducks in the estuarine channels
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