Grey Heron

Explore the whispering reedbeds and keep your eyes sharp for our shy but numerous inhabitants. Rest a while at the viewing area, or bring a flask and take your time over a cuppa among nature.

Come and explore the wonderful Fairburn Ings and discover a landscape shaped by coal mining, now enjoying a second life as a haven for wildlife.

Explore a landscape transformed from gravel pit to nature’s paradise. Open water gives way to wet grasslands and reedbeds, meadows and woodland that teem with life.

Discover nesting Grey Herons and Little Egrets, Nuthatches and woodpeckers among this ancient woodland and abandoned oak plantation.

Explore Bluebell woods, a cherry orchard and wetlands. Wander the reserve and see herons and egrets, Nightingales, Water Voles and more.