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Musselburgh Lagoons

East Lothian  >  United Kingdom

With a wide variety of habitats beneficial to birds Musselburgh Lagoons has a birdlist of an impressive 226 species.

Adicionado* por David Kelly
Ultima atualização 3 junho 2024

Descrição

Musselburgh is an area of reclaimed mudflats which were landscaped with trees and scrapes, and with a seawall directly overlooking deep but sheltered water in the Firth of Forth. Grassland, woodlands, open ash lagoons, a boating pond and artificial wader scrapes. Good for terns, gulls, waders and grebes and one of the best places to see sea ducks, including as many as five species of Scoter, off the seawall.

Some of the birds you can see here: Pato-fusco, Pato-de-cauda-afilada, Mergulhão-de-pescoço-ruivo, Mergulhão-de-pescoço-castanho, Pato-careto. The open, rough grass is also attractive to wintering Pintarroxo-de-bico-amarelo.

Recent rarities include Maçarico-sovela, Pilrito-falcinelo, negrola-d'asa-branca-americana, Eider-real, Maçarico-escolopáceo-americano, Batuirucu and Stejneger's Scoter.

Detalhes

Acesso

Park at Goose Green Road by the River Esk or by the boating pond or on the car park near the eastern entrance. The walking trail that is shown on the map is 4,5 km long.

Terreno e Habitat

Árvores e arbustos dispersos , Terras húmidas , Campina , Rio , Mar , Lamaçais

Condições

Plano

Caminho circular

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Melhor hora para visitar

Migração da primavera , Migração de outono , Inverno

Rota

Estrada pavimentada , Caminho largo

Caminho dificil

Fácil

Acessível por

Pé , Bicicleta , Cadeira de rodas

Abrigo/plataforma deobservação de aves

Sim

Informação extra

Musselburgh Lagoons, at the mouth of the River Esk, were formed in 1964 by the South of Scotland Electricity Board. They constructed a large concrete sea wall encompassing four large lagoons which were used for the dumping of fly-ash from the nearby Cockenzie Power Station. These ash lagoons provided ideal conditions for the large numbers of waders, gulls, terns and duck that now use them as a high tide roost site, particularly the lagoon nearest to the river mouth. In June 2023 a new lagoon and 5 new hides were opened on the Lagoon nearest the river, the hides are accessible from a tarmac foot and cycle path.

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