Locations,  Reserves

New Lanark

Falls of Clyde Wildlife reserve and visitor centre

Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve and New Lanark Clyde walkway board walks and vantage platforms for viewpoints and bird photography, the Falls of Clyde Wildlife reserve and visitors centre. View the spectacular Corra Linn falls, when the power station diverts the water to the falls a sight worth seeing

The reserve is home to a rich diversity of birds, mammals and invertebrates. In spring the woodland is carpeted in wildflowers and in the autumn the rich colours are spectacular.

Water Birds

  • Mallard Ducks
  • Grey Heron
  • Kingfisher
  • Dipper

Birds

  • Tree Creeper
  • Pied Wagtails
  • Grey Wagtails
  • Wood Warbler
  • Chaffinch 
  • Bullfinch
  • Spotted Flycatchers
  • Blue Tits
  • Coal Tits
  • Great Tits
  • Long Tailed Tits
  • Robins
  • Blackbirds
  • Greater Spotted Woodpecker
  • Raven
  • Carrion Crows
  • Jays
  • Jackdaws
  • Magpies
  • Martins
  • Swallows
  • Song Thrush

Birds of Prey

  • Kestrel
  • Tawny Owl
  • Peregine Falcon
  • Buzzards

Animals

  • Badgers
  • Grey Squirrel
  • Fox
  • Stoats
  • Otter
  • Roe Deer
  • Common Pipistrelle Bats
  • Daubenton’s Bats

Amphibians

  • Frogs
  • Toads
  • Newts

Insects

  • Golden Ringed Dragonfly
  • Dragonfly
  • Damselflies
  • Dark Edged Bee Fly
  • Ringlet Butterflies
  • Green Brindled Crescent Moth
  • Ermine Moths
  • Hawk Moths
  • Cave Spiders
  • Riverfly
  • Cadisfly
  • Mayfly
  • Stonefly
  • Tree Bumblebee
  • Great Diving Beetle

Flowers

  • Globe Flowers
  • Bluebells
  • Wood Anemone
  • Wood Sorrel
  • Lesser Celandine
  • Dog Violet
  • Cuckoo Flower
  • Speedwell
  • Greater Stichwort
  • Pink Purslane
  • Red Campion
  • Water Avens
  • Cleavers
  • Bugle
  • Foxglove
  • Vetch

  • Yellow Rattle
  • Meadowsweet
  • Snowdrops
  • Wild Garlic
  • Ivy

Trees

  • Ash
  • Rowan
  • Oak
  • Beech
  • Elder
  • Alder
  • Birch
  • Hazel

Fungi

  • Pixie-cup Lichen
  • Fly Agaric
  • Stomach Fungus
  • Scarlet Elf Cups
  • Stinkhorn Mushrooms

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