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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 калуѓерка, црвенонога тринга and drumming обична бекасина. крекс calls can be heard from mid-May and Полска еја can be seen displaying on the moorland. In Autumn, Barnacle Goose and белочелна гуска arrive in numbers around 30,000 from Greenland, this arrival attracts many белоопашест орел to the Loch. Waders such as бел свиркач, обичен свиркач, среден пескар, златно блатарче and Bar-tailed Godwit can be seen through the autumn and winter using the loch. Wintering wildfowl such as патка свиркач, патка ластовичарка, патка берија and жолтоклун лебед 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.