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The reserve is made up of a mosaic of saltmarsh, peatbogs, farmland and wet grassland providing homes for a great variety of native wildlife. Trails lead to a hide looking out over the main wet grassland area supporting breeding lapwings, redshanks and snipe in the summer and thousands of wildfowl in the winter. More...

Feeding flock of barnacle geese, RSPB Loch Gruinart reserve, Islay

Carngafallt

This lovely upland reserve comprises woodland, moorland and farmland. It's at its best in spring, when migrants including redstarts, whinchats and tree pipits have arrived from Africa, though red kites can be seen at any time of year. The moorland looks especially beautiful in late summer. More...

Chapel Wood

This small reserve is a mixed woodland with the remains of an old hill fort and an historic chapel with a well, in a remote location. More...

Church Wood

This small reserve forms part of the extensive Chiltern woodlands and is a mixture of beech, ash, oak and hazel coppice. Woodpeckers, nuthatches and blackcaps are among the birds breeding in the wood. More...

Nuthatch climbing head-first down branch

Cliffe Pools

Acquired in 2001, the reserve already attracts thousands of birds. It is renowned as a site for wading birds, with massed flocks moving from the Thames Estuary onto the pools on winter high tides, a wide range of passage birds in autumn and spring, and breeding avocets, redshanks, lapwings and ringed plovers. More...

Coll

Our reserve on the island of Coll has long, white shell sand beaches, sand dunes and machair grassland - all typical Hebridean habitats. If you visit between May and August, you may hear the 'crex, crex' call of the corncrake, though they are very hard to see. In winter, the island pulls in large numbers of barnacle and Greenland white-fronted geese. More...

Conwy

Coastal lagoons and grassland alongside the Conwy estuary with spectacular views of Snowdonia. Waders and wildfowl are the main interest but well over 200 species have been recorded at this exciting reserve. More...

Coombes and Churnet

On this reserve you'll find scenic, steep-sided valleys with oak woodland and a rocky stream. A wide range of fascinating birds can be enjoyed, from dippers and grey wagtails along the stream to migrant redstarts, pied flycatchers and a variety of warblers. It's also great in spring and summer for flowers and insects. More...

RSPB Coombes Valley reserve, path through bluebell wood

Copinsay

This uninhabited island was bought as a memorial to the naturalist James Fisher. The cliffs of the reserve are home to a huge colony of breeding seabirds, including fulmars, puffins, guillemots, razorbills and kittiwakes. More...

Coquet Island

Coquet Island is an RSPB reserve about one mile off Amble, Northumberland. It is home to a large colony of nesting sea birds and is specially protected under European Law for birds such as the roseate tern, one of our rarest nesting seabirds. Coquet now holds 90% of the UK's roseate tern population. More...

Corrimony

Set in one of the most superb landscapes in Britain, Corrimony has open moorland, conifer plantations and native woodland. In summer, the area attracts greenshanks and occasional red-throated divers and ospreys. Black grouse are often seen in the birchwoods and spotted flycatchers, bullfinches and wood warblers nest in the pinewoods. More...