Wildlife highlights
- Grey seals can be seen at high tide year round at their only haul-out location in Cumbria
- Breeding eider duck, great black-backed gull, oystercatcher, ringed plover, shelduck
- In Spring?– the time to see courting eider ducks and catch the returning spring migrants- wheatear, willow warbler and sandwich terns. Thrift and sea campion come into flower.
- In summer?- see nesting gulls, eiders, oystercatchers and ringed plovers. Arctic, little and sandwich terns are summer visitors; these agile seabirds can be seen?fishing from Sea Hide. Burnet moths and grayling butterflies are on the wing and viper’s bugloss, yellow horned poppy and sea lavender are in flower.
- In Autumn?– catch the flocks of migratory cew, spotted redshank, redstart and pink-footed geese.
- In winter?- Huge numbers of waders and wildfowl feed and roost around the nature reserve.
- Throughout the year look out for barn owls, short-eared owls and peregrines and grey seals at high tide.