Short birdwatching visit · RSPB
Broubster Leans
- Tier
- Good stop nearby
- Best season
- spring and summer
- Headline birds
- Whooper Swan · Lapwing
- Parking
- The reserve has three parking spaces.
- Hides
- No formal hide or viewing structure is provided.
- Step-free
- The operator provides no detailed wheelchair-access description for this location.
Thurso · KW14 7RB
Broubster Leans is a wetland within a working farmland landscape southwest of Thurso. Pools, rushy pasture and channels provide a useful contrast to the cliffs and open sea of the Caithness coast. Lapwing and other waders use the wet grassland in spring and summer, while winter brings flocks of wildfowl, including Whooper Swan. The visit is principally a watch across the reserve from the public road and car park, with no formal viewing structure to shelter from Highland weather.
Birds and seasons
- Whooper Swan · Headline bird — Typically autumn and winter Source for Whooper Swan
- Lapwing · Headline bird — Typically spring and summer Source for Lapwing
- Greylag Goose — Typically year-round Source for Greylag Goose
Plan your visit
- Hides and viewpoints
- No formal hide or viewing structure is provided.
- Paths
- Observe from the car park and public road; the operator does not describe a managed trail.
- Toilets
- No reserve toilets; the nearest listed facilities are in Thurso.
- Parking
- The reserve has three parking spaces.
- Dogs
- Keep dogs close, preferably on a short lead, during breeding season and take particular care around grazing stock.
- Access notes
- The operator provides no detailed wheelchair-access description for this location.
- Step-free access
- The operator provides no detailed wheelchair-access description for this location.
Getting there: A small reserve car park provides the documented arrival option.
Sources
Social preview photograph: Common Starling standing in grass in Oxfordshire. Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted for the preview.
Nearby special trips
- Loch Fleet National Nature Reserve · 41.8 straight-line miles
- Birsay Moors · 44.3 straight-line miles
- Nigg Bay · 56.1 straight-line miles
Continue birding nearby
Nearest full guide: RSPB Forsinard Flows, 14.2 miles away in a straight line.
- Hobbister · 36.5 miles in a straight line
- Brodgar · 36.8 miles in a straight line
- Loch Fleet National Nature Reserve · 41.8 miles in a straight line