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UK Bird Reserve with highest No of BREEDING species? (1 Viewer)
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chowchilla
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Purely as a guess I'd say Minsmere.
Farnboro John
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Minsmere springs to mind first for me as well: beach, scrapes, reeds, scrub, heath, sand banks, deciduous woodland, (pines?), fields.
John
John
WACCOE
Marching on Together
Would have to agree with Minsmere.
Epsomsalt
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I would have thought Pensthorpe, Nr. Fakenham (Home of BBC's Springwatch) would come close.
I'm not sure about other reserves but Minsmere is an excellent reserve. It is the best place in the UK to see Nightingale in my experience.
East Anglia as a whole is very good, with the Breck's & the North Norfolk coast I think it would be very dificult to beat.
Good luck where ever you go, cheers, Neil.
Farnboro John
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Titchwell RSPB can be a bit grockly but has a great selection of birds from arable fields and scrub willow, to reedbed, to fresh, brackish and saltmarsh as well as a fine beach and sea. Probably my favourite RSPB reserve albeit you can see more at Minsmere.
And you can never write off Cley either.
Lakenheath has a couple of cracking specialities in breeding Golden Oriole and Common Crane and is just up the road from the NWT reserve at Weeting Heath which is a top site for seeing Stone Curlew and Stoat.
Minsmere - Lakenheath - Weeting - North Norfolk coastal reserves: a long weekend or a leisurely week and loads and loads of birds and animals.
John
And you can never write off Cley either.
Lakenheath has a couple of cracking specialities in breeding Golden Oriole and Common Crane and is just up the road from the NWT reserve at Weeting Heath which is a top site for seeing Stone Curlew and Stoat.
Minsmere - Lakenheath - Weeting - North Norfolk coastal reserves: a long weekend or a leisurely week and loads and loads of birds and animals.
John
gropperwinch
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I'd have thought a few other reserves, e.g Arne, Leighton Moss and Abernethy Forest would run them close, although I have to say Minsmere probably does have highest numbers.
