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KINGFISHER PLACES

This list is a useful starting point if you would like to see Kingfishers in the UK.

England

Bedfordshire

Priory Country Park, near Bedford.

Cambridgeshire

Milton Country Park, Cambridge.

Paxton Pits, near St Neots.

Dorset

Radipole Lake and/or Lodmoor RSPB Nature Reserves, Weymouth.

East Yorkshire

Blacktoft Sands RSPB Nature Reserve, near Goole.

Essex

Fingringhoe Wick, 5 miles from Colchester (Essex Wildlife Trust).

Lee Valley Country Park, 2 miles north of Waltham Abbey.

Gloucestershire

Slimbridge (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust).

Greater London

Brent Reservoir, north London.

Rainham Marshes RSPB Nature Reserve, near Purfleet.

Greater Manchester

Pennington Flash Country Park.

Hertfordshire

Rye Meads, near Hoddesdon (Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust/RSPB).

Tring Reservoirs.

Lincolnshire

Whisby Nature Park, near Lincoln.

Norfolk

Cley, 4 miles north of Holt (Norfolk Wildlife Trust).

Strumpshaw Fen RSPB Nature Reserve, east of Norwich.

Titchwell RSPB Nature Reserve, 5 miles east of Hunstanton.

Northamptonshire

Summer Leys Local Nature Reserve, near Wellingborough (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough Wildlife Trust).

North Yorkshire

Wheldrake Ings, 8 miles from York (Yorkshire Wildlife Trust).

Nottinghamshire

Colwick Country Park, near Nottingham.

Oxfordshire

Farmoor Reservoirs, near Oxford.

South Yorkshire

Old Moor RSPB Nature Reserve, near Barnsley.

Potteric Carr, near Doncaster (Yorkshire Wildlife Trust).

Suffolk

Lackford Lakes, north-west of Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk Wildlife Trust).

Minsmere RSPB Nature Reserve, near Eastbridge.

Warwickshire

Brandon Marsh, near Coventry (Warwickshire Wildlife Trust).

Kingsbury Water Park, Sutton Coldfield.

West Sussex

Chichester Gravel Pits.

West Yorkshire

Fairburn Ings RSPB Nature Reserve, near Castleford.

Wiltshire

Cotswold Water Park.

Worcestershire

Upton Warren, near Bromsgrove (Worcestershire Wildlife Trust).

Scotland

Angus & Dundee

Balgavies Lock, Forfar (Scottish Wildlife Trust)

Edinburgh & the Lothians

Basinch and Duddingston, Edinburgh (Scottish Wildlife Trust)

Glasgow and Clyde Valley

Falls of Clyde, Lanark (Scottish Wildlife Trust)

Lochwinnoch RSPB Nature Reserve, Paisley

Barons Haugh RSPB Nature Reserve, Motherwell

Wales

Conwy

Conwy RSPB Nature Reserve.

Carmarthenshire

Llanelli Wetland Centre (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust).

Pembrokeshire

Welsh Wildlife Centre, south of Cardigan (Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales).

BOOKS

Boag, D., The Kingfisher, Blandford, 1982 and 1988.

Boag, D., The Kingfisher, Shire Natural History, 1986.

Eastman, R., The Kingfisher, Collins, 1969.

WEBSITES

BTO: www.bto.org

RSPB: www.rspb.org.uk