Scotland Holiday Day 13: Moffat Community Nature Reserve 10th June 2016

Scotland Holiday Day 13: Moffat Community Nature Reserve 10th June 2016

This was technically the last day of our holiday and it was all returning home now. We had decided to break the trip from Musselburgh to Manchester by staying at a pub in Penrith so as not to arrive on a Friday night in Manchester rush hour traffic after a long drive. So, with a bit of time to spare we stopped at one of our favourite places for a caup of tea – Moffat. We had a walk aroudn the town and dropped into the tourist information shop on the high street. There we picked up a couple of eaflets. One interested Anne in particular and this was a Sherpa garden run by a Tibetan family. The other was more interesting to me and that was Moffat Community Nature Reserve, a place I had never heard of.

We drove to the location between the motorway and Moffat and wound our way down the track to this small site that consists of a meadow that floods in winter with a path around it and some hides and a lake which is also surrounded by hides and located within a small woodland area. I noted that this was supposed to be very good for Garden Warbler so I sat in the hide and quietly reminded myself of its song. It was mere seconds after I left the hide that we heard, and eventually saw, the fiorst of several of these birds. Whilst it is not a first for me it was definitely the best views I have had of them.

There were other birds, Chiffchaff, Wren, Tits etc but this bird was the star of the show and we ended up getting good views of three different birds. Definitely a place to add on to our list of curious places to drop in on.

Bird Sightings : Moffat Community Nature Reserve