Why not follow the Berwickshire Coastal Path to experience all of our incredible wildlife. With a Nature Reserve, a Wildlife Reserve and a Marine Reserve, the Berwickshire Coast’s wildlife is certainly special! With a chance to see the internationally important seabird colony at St Abbs, the dolphins in the Marine Reserve and the specked wood butterfly at Pease Dean, you really must visit us!
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Day 1: ST ABB'S HEAD NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE
Breath-taking coastal headland with dramatic cliffs, famed for its seabird colonies! This cliff-top nature reserve has fresh sea air and rugged coastal scenery aplenty. It gives you the feeling of being somewhere really wild and remote, yet it’s just off the A1. You can easily spend hours in the summer months watching and listening to the thousands of seabirds who nest in the high cliffs. Away from the cliff’s edge a carpet of wildflowers spreads out among the grassland – look out for sea pinks, rock rose, wild thyme and purple milk vetch. The nature reserve also boasts a wealth of other wildlife, as do the surrounding waters.
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Day 2: ST ABBS & EYEMOUTH VOLUNTARY MARINE RESERVE
The waters off the Berwickshire coast have long been considered special by marine biologists as they contain a fantastic abundance and diversity of marine life. Add to this clear waters and spectacular underwater scenery and it is not surprising that divers have been coming to the area for decades.
Take a boat trip around the marine reserve for your chance to see seal, minke whales, bottlenose dolphins and more!
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Day 3: PEASE DEAN WILDLIFE RESERVE
Pease Dean is an ancient semi-natural woodland, a remnant of the Wild Wood which once covered most of the United Kingdom after the last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. Such woodland is now extremely scarce and largely restricted to steep valleys like Pease Dean Ferns, mosses and liverworts thrive in these wet, sheltered deans. In spring and summer, the woodland floor is cloaked with a bluebell, primrose and wood anemone blanket. Butterflies, including speckled wood, are drawn to these displays.
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