Meeting Point: Visitor’s Centre car park (see map below/LN6 9BW). The reserve is brown signed from the roundabout on the A46 at the end of the dual carriageway Time: 09:30 Lunch: bring drink and packed lunch if you want to stay out into the afternoon. There is a cafe at the Visitor’s Centre Transport: Members cars Cost: free Leader: Steve Slack & Andy Marshall
The target bird is the Nightingale of which there might be more than one breeding pair. Check out the song before you go and then be prepared to be amazed by the real thing. In addition, this reserve will be alive with returning migrants with a good chance of seeing many of them. In addition, Mediterranean Gulls are often seen too.
Walking is flat and straight forward.
After lunch, there’s the opportunity to return home via RSPB Langford Lowfields. Located about 3 miles north of Newark on the A1133 (NG23 7QL). Details can be found by clicking the link to their website below. In the last two years, the stars of the show here are the hunting Hobbies with up to 4 seen at any one time.