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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PYRTLE" data-source="post: 1673109" data-attributes="member: 19418">Managed reserve that shows stone curlews?Is there another honeypot site in the UK that thousands off people can safely go to to see these birds? Surely this is a far more agreeable practice rather than park on dangerous bends, thus damaging verges, upset some farmers who don't like members of the public on or around their land or perhaps even  disturb the birds on breeding grounds. Some visitors are fortunate and have very good and prolonged views from the hides of stone curlews.Accordingly, we also need to remember that organisations such as wildlife trusts do have certain duties to safeguard habitat as well as protect rare and threatened species. The benefit of a place such as Weeting (and I'm confident you would agree) is that it takes some "human impact" pressure off other pairs of stone curlews that do successfully breed on private land elsewhere.</blockquote>