All around Angus, there is a wonderful variety of wildlife and habitats to enjoy.On the Angus coast, seabirds, animals and plants abound.
See puffins and fulmar at Auchmithie, along the Seaton Cliffs Nature Trail find butterflies including the Common Blue and at any time of year watch a huge variety of birds at the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Montrose Basin Visitor Centre, which is equipped to a very high standard.
Telescopes viewing birdlife across the beautiful Montrose Basin, and right up to the hills in a welcoming purpose-built Centre with friendly staff, help visitors make the best of their knowledge and learn more. Its a brilliant place for families. Have a look right now at our Montrose Basin webcam, established in 2007 in partnership with Scottish Wildlife Trust.
Care of the environment and the variety of wildlife natural habitats it supports falls, in many cases, to the Trust. Their work at the Montrose Basin is informative and fascinating. The reserve is difficult to beat for sheer numbers of birds. There are huge gatherings of swans from late summer, tens of thousands of pink-footed geese in October and November and waders and ducks all year round. A kingfisher is a regular summer visitor, and an osprey can often be seen hunting in seaon.
The RSPB have a similar observational facility at Loch of Kinnordy.
Both facilities offer family friendly facilities to spot ospreys, gulls, ducks, geese and grebes, from hides or viewing platforms, and Montrose has a snad martin bank, and excellent feeder stations, attracting woodpeckers, great tits, blue tits, yellowhammers and many other field birds. Nest cameras show the home life of the blue tits, and soon will show the sand martins too.
The Angus Glens are rich in wildlife - red deer, roe deer, otters, stoats, golden eagles, peregrine falcons, and much more.
Inland you can see salmon leaping at the Rocks of Solitude near Edzell, and forest life around the beautiful Reekie Linn waterfall near Kirriemuir. The Angus Glens extend like long fingers from the rich lowlands towards the Cairngorm Mountains. Corrie Fee National Nature Reserve extends west, across the head of Glen Doll and includes Corries Fee and Sharroch and the slopes and crags of the Craig Rennet, and has some of Britain's finest communities of mountain plants and upland birds.
Highland Cows are now being employed to improve the habitat at Loch of Kinnordy. They are a magnificent addition to the Angus landscape.
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