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This an area of wet grazing that usually floods each winter and attracts important numbers of waterfowl and waders, including Trane .
This is a Ramsar internationally important wetland site, a Special Area of Conservation, a Special Protection Area and a Nature Conservation Review site managed by the RSPB.
The resident Trane are a highlight and are one of the few breeding colonies in Britain. There is also the largest breeding colony of Stor Kobbersneppe. Various raptors are resident or regular visitors and large flocks of ducks, swans and geese spend winter in the flooded fields, including winter migrants.
The small carpark is about a mile north off the A605, east of Whittlesey (turn at the John Deere depot). There is no access onto the reseve, but there are good viewpoints along the embankment for as far as you wish to walk; there's no vehicular access beyond the carpark.
There are no facilities; take food, drink and warm clothes.
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