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Northern Ireland · Spring and autumn waders · summer breeding wildfowl · winter Wigeon and ducks

Quoile Pondage Nature Reserve

A former tidal estuary transformed into a freshwater lake, with reed-fringed bays, rushy grassland, wet scrub and developing woodland. Migrating waders use the reserve in spring and autumn; summer brings swans and breeding wildfowl including Gadwall, while large numbers of Wigeon and other ducks gather in winter alongside grebes, Grey Herons and Cormorants.

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Quoile Pondage Nature Reserve: operator’s visitor page

Social preview photograph: Broken reed stems and reflections on still water at Quoile Pondage. Ardfern / Wikimedia Commons; resized and converted to WebP, display may crop · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted for the preview.