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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capercaillie71" data-source="post: 866135" data-attributes="member: 32437">OK, I had a look on my way home this evening.  As Ken says, you maybe wouldn't want to come too far to visit, but if you were visiting Deeside anyway, it might be worth a visit.  I didn't have any optics with me, but there were a couple of pairs of lapwings, a couple of curlews, 3 redshanks, a pair of mallards and a heap of black headed gulls at the far end (possibly nesting?).  It is a nice bit of wet grassland habitat, and I suppose it may attract more unusual things from time to time.On the negative side, the hide was actually locked, and there was no indication of when it is open.  This didn't matter though as there was little screening around the hide, so you could just stand next to it and get exactly the same view!  In fact, the hide was a bit too far from the wetland area, which meant that it doesn't really give you a closer view than you would have had from the road, just a more comfortable place to sit (if it was open).The exact location on this map is below and to the right of the "d" in Tarland, on the yellow road immediately to the south of the pond with the golf course flag next to it, at the end of the track that leads down to the Tarland burn NJ 4878 0430 <a href="http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=350000&Y=805000&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=&zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=253&multimap.y=250" target="_blank">http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=350000&Y=805000&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=&zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=253&multimap.y=250</a></blockquote>

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