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Message 1 - posted by BBC Autumnwatch web team
(U4079033)
, Oct 14, 2008
Hi, Autumnwatch isn't just about great TV it's also about getting people out and about to enjoy the season's wildlife. We've posted a page on the website: www.bbc.co.uk/autumn... which should give people some pointers. But it's far from exhaustive and we thought we'd ask the experts (you) to help us make it better. So please use this thread to tell everyone of any great places to watch nature that you know of. Any helpful website links would be good too. Cheers Autumnwatch web team |
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Message 2 - posted by boisterousnoodley
(U13518686)
, Oct 14, 2008
Thank you all!
In Northumberland , we have the National Trust and the Forestry Commission, to name just 2. If anyone wants to explore this county then check out the information centres like the one in Rothbury called the Coquetdale Centre. There is also Cragside house with its lakes and ezxtensive grounds with wonderful plants and trees. We have lovely Red Squirrels here too, especially round the Kielder area. Hope this helps!
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Message 3 - posted by winnie_the_newt
(U2052046)
, Oct 14, 2008
Well, Dumfriesshire has plenty to offer. I am a frequent visitor to my local WWT at Caerlaverock; which posted these sightings recently: www.wwt.org.uk/galle...I am looking forward to seeing the sights of starlings in vast numbers soon; I usually watch them 2-3 times a week: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/...then we have everything from coastal to woodland and upland: deer, otters, red kites, hen harriers etc etc: www.welcome2dumfries...I love living here  This is a reply to this message
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Message 4 - posted by BBC Autumnwatch web team
(U4079033)
, Oct 14, 2008
Thanks guys. Keep them coming everyone...
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Message 5 - posted by Wildlife Filmer Adam
(U4493875)
, Oct 14, 2008
Lickey Hills Country Park - www.birmingham.gov.u...Waseley Hills Country Park - worcestershire.whub....www.birminghammail.n...Woodgate Valley Country Park - www.birmingham.gov.u...Wildlife Filmer Adam This is a reply to this message
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Message 6 - posted by Wildlife Filmer Adam
(U4493875)
, Oct 14, 2008
This is a brilliant link: www.breathingplaces.... trust me. Wildlife Filmer Adam This is a reply to this message
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Message 7 - posted by kinesworld
(U12196900)
, Oct 14, 2008
Thanks Adam looks interesting but I think your breathing places link has your postcode on it so just tell which house number you are and we could pop in for coffee This is a reply to this message
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Message 8 - posted by Wildlife Filmer Adam
(U4493875)
, Oct 14, 2008
Oh - oopsy  I'd say coffee at one of the breathing places would be more convenient/appropriate. Wildlife Filmer Adam This is a reply to this message
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Message 9 - posted by ali-kat54
(U10074401)
, Oct 14, 2008
I've just been in our local library and there's an ad. for a walk along the Salt Line with the ranger this coming Thursday morning. Sorry to everyone else but anyone in the Alsager/Sandbach area will probably know where I mean. I know it's short notice but I've only just seen it myself.  This is a reply to this message
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Message 10 - posted by kinesworld
(U12196900)
, Oct 14, 2008
me inappropriate never  This is a reply to this message
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Message 11 - posted by silvertonfan
(U13629886)
, Oct 14, 2008
I went to Stalag Old Swinford boarding school in Stourbridge, Adam. Sentenced to five years.
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Message 12 - posted by silvertonfan
(U13629886)
, Oct 14, 2008
We have a huge wealth of Forestry Commission woodland dotted all over N.Herefordshire & S.Shropshire, Mortimer Forest being the main body of woodlands. Sad to say, but the FC staff do nothing to encourage the public to use the woodlands more, no publicity in local press where these areas are, no guided walks of any kind or any interaction with schools & schoolchildren, nothing. So many valuable opportunities missed. Probably not their fault, it's obviously FC policy. Shame when you realise so many people don't know these areas even exist & the wonderful surprises in flora & fauna, & how ironic, it's their land, to study, walk, jog & cycle on free of charge!
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Message 13 - posted by Wildlife Filmer Adam
(U4493875)
, Oct 14, 2008
What do you mean by you were sentenced to five years?
Wildlife Filmer Adam
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Message 14 - posted by Skylark
(U4762204)
, Oct 14, 2008
Here in Devon you will find me at: Halsdon Woods - lovely ancient woodland with autumn colur & a walk right on the banks of the River Torridge: www.devonwildlifetru...The Northam Burrows at Bideford for great flocks of seabirds: www.torridge.gov.uk/...Dartmoor National Park for Autumn colour, fungi & wildlife: www.discoverdartmoor...And of course trying to find, see & hear the Red Deer rut on Exmoor (Dulverton is the best place to enter the moors to find them!) - Exmoor in fact has the second largest herd of native Red Deer to the herds in Scotland! www.everythingexmoor...This is a reply to this message
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Message 15 - posted by silvertonfan
(U13629886)
, Oct 14, 2008
If you want to see buzzards come to North Herefordshire, S. Shrops, there are more here than just about anywhere else, they are everywhere you look. If you want an almost guaranteed sighting of peregrines in the wild take a visit to the Elan Valley dams, near Rhayader (pronounced elan & rayder). Drive past the visitor's centre & stop at the first little car park on your right. If you don't see any there, walk the tarmacked path between the road & reservoirs, so far I've had 70% success rate. Most enjoyable moment for me in all my birdwatching years was at these dams. A guy around 40 with a pair of bins round his neck came up to ask what I was looking at through my bins. I told him a pair of peregrines & pointed them out. He was ecstatic with excitement, he could not believe his luck, he was so excited he had me laughing at his excitement, his joy was so infectious. Turned out he'd not long took the hobby up, had no idea there were peregrines around there & never thought he'd ever get to see any. The area is also a great place to see red kites. Grigin farm, just outside Rhayader, the farmer feeds dozens of red kites & buzzards twice a day. There are long roomy hides for the public, positioned literally only a few meters from where the birds swoop.
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Message 16 - posted by Ggosfan
(U10381887)
, Oct 15, 2008
Adam, I was there in the 1960's. Boarding schools in the 1960's, a place no-one would want to be in those days. It might as well have been a borstal from the same period. These days it's all changed, now a brilliant school with a long waiting list. With a dozen ex-inmates I went back there this year for a look around.
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Message 17 - posted by Wildlife Filmer Adam
(U4493875)
, Oct 15, 2008
I've never liked the sound/idea of boarding schools...
Wildlife Filmer Adam
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Message 18 - posted by Cazzagirl1
(U10278855)
, Oct 22, 2008
Clumber Park
A fantastic place to visit at anytime of year. I was there last Saturday and there were loads of Canada Geese on the lake. I must have taken hundreds of photos especially of all the different toadstools I found
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Message 19 - posted by kinesworld
(U12196900)
, Oct 22, 2008
Hi Cazzagirl1 Where about in the country is Clumber Park? Sounds great This is a reply to this message
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Message 20 - posted by Cazzagirl1
(U10278855)
, Oct 22, 2008
It's in Nottinhamshire and Clumber Park and Sherwood Forest are one of the best places. I always go when I'm up visiting family in Notts :D
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