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 priba, rdečenogi martinec and drumming kozica. kosec calls can be heard from mid-May and pepelasti lunj can be seen displaying on the moorland. In Autumn, belolična gos and beločela gos arrive in numbers around 30,000 from Greenland, this arrival attracts many belorepec to the Loch. Waders such as peščenec, spremenljivi prodnik, komatni deževnik, zlata prosenka and progastorepi kljunač can be seen through the autumn and winter using the loch. Wintering wildfowl such as žvižgavka, dolgorepa raca, kreheljc and labod pevec spend the winter in front of the hides.
Details
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.


