Description
The RSPB Loch Gruinart Reserve has two hides and a visitor centre. In the spring the fields come alive with breeding wader displays including čejka chocholatá, vodouš rudonohý and drumming bekasina otavní. chřástal polní calls can be heard from mid-May and moták pilich can be seen displaying on the moorland. In Autumn, berneška bělolící and husa běločelá arrive in numbers around 30,000 from Greenland, this arrival attracts many orel mořský to the Loch. Waders such as jespák písečný, jespák obecný, kulík písečný, kulík zlatý and břehouš rudý can be seen through the autumn and winter using the loch. Wintering wildfowl such as hvízdák eurasijský, ostralka štíhlá, čírka obecná and labuť zpěvná spend the winter in front of the hides.
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Access
No bus to the reserve. Nearest stop 3 miles (4.8 km) away. Passengers should alight at the junction on the A847 Bridgend to Bruichladdich road, then there will be a three-mile walk. Or if on the Port Askaig route, alight at Bridgend - a six-mile walk to the reserve.
Signed from A847 Bridgend to Bruichladdich road, 3 miles (4.8 km) from turn-off. Ferry from mainland, Kennacraig to Port Askaig or Port Ellen on Islay.


