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Wildlife at Kirkwood

A holiday at Kirkwood Cottages can be a wildlife delight and we are blessed with the most wonderful array of animals and birds, so don't forget to bring your camera and binoculars. Our guests often comment on the creatures they have seen for the first time whilst on holiday here. You might see...

deer
badgers
foxes
otters
red squirrels
stoats
merlins
kestrels
herons
kingfishers
goosanders
plovers
hares
oystercatchers
swans
duck
geese
woodpeckers
buzzards
sandpipers
grebes
sparrowhawks
owls
pheasants

but there are many, many more.

Nearby, at Caerlaverock, is the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust reserve is where 12,000 barnacle geese winter each year along with duck, waders and swans. There is also an RSPB reserve at Mersehead near New Abbey on the Solway Coast.

Will you catch sight of a beautiful but elusive barn owl?


Red Squirrels are often seen at our feeders along the entrance drive

 

Kirkwood Cottages & Fishings, Dalton, Lockerbie, Scotland, DG11 1DH
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