Opis
Leazes Park is close to the centre of Newcastle and adjacent to the main Royal Victoria Infirmary hospital, and St James Park (Newcastle United Football Club, home of the srokas!). This makes it a useful place to visit for anyone visiting Newcastle for business, football, and for long-stay patients in the hospital who have only limited mobility. The usual urban and suburban species can be seen, and the lake is large enough (and with an island) to attract the odd passing rarer wildfowl like hełmiatka and perkoz rogaty. A small wild area with reduced accessibility gives more timid birds like droździk and jer an opportunity to feed undisturbed. In one recent year a zniczek wintered, unusual this far north. Nearby on Richardson Road, a number of Rowan trees outside the RVI regularly attract jemiołuszka in invasion autumns.
Szczegóły
Dostęp
Most easily accessed by foot or bike. Bus services 32, 36, 47, and 84A all stop at the entrance, and the main Haymarket and Eldon Square bus stations are only 5 minutes walk away. Limited car parking (££) is available. All the paths are tarmac surfaced, and almost all are fully wheelchair accessible (a couple of steeper paths have steps, but alternative paths exist).
Teren i siedlisko
Las , Jezioro , Rzadkie drzewa i krzewy , Łąka , Miasto/wieśWarunki
PłaskiTrasa dookoła
TakCzy luneta będzie przydatna ?
NieUdany sezon obserwacyjny
Przez cały rokNajlepszy czas na wizytę
Zima , Wiosna , Lato , JesieńTrasa
Szeroka ścieżka , Droga utwardzonaPoziom trudności szlaku pieszego
ŁatwyDostępne
Pieszo , RowerCzatownia/platforma obserwacyjna
NieDodatkowe informacje
Several years ago the lake was drained for cleaning and repairs; the exposed mud attracted both kwokacz and brodziec piskliwy, but return visits by these species are unlikely.


