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The reserve 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.
Great crested grebes, shelducks, and little egrets are all resident and are joined by large flocks of pochards, tufted ducks, shovelers, teals and other ducks in winter. In spring and summer look out for hobbies, nightingales and turtle doves.
Cliffe Pools are also home to a range of other wildlife including water voles and harvest mice plus notable insects, such as the scarce emerald damselfly, shrill carder bee and green hairstreak butterfly. Plant species include nationally notable species, such as sea barley and annual beard grass.
Please be prepared for the fact that it is still a very young and developing reserve. In time, full visitor facilities will be provided at the southern end of the site off Salt Lane.
Opening times
Public footpaths are open at all times.
The place to...
…enjoy fantastic views over the North Kent Marshes, long walks around the blue pools, and a wealth of bird life, including massed flocks of ducks and wading birds, exciting migrant birds, breeding avocets, common terns, nightingales and turtle doves, and always the chance of something unusual.
Cliffe
Kent
Tel: 01634 222480
Grid reference: TQ720770
Click here for more information.
Cliffe Pools RSPB
The 230 hectares of Cliffe Pools are a mix of saline lagoons, freshwater pools, grassland, saltmarsh and scrub. These habitats have developed on old clay diggings and river dredgings.The reserve 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.
Great crested grebes, shelducks, and little egrets are all resident and are joined by large flocks of pochards, tufted ducks, shovelers, teals and other ducks in winter. In spring and summer look out for hobbies, nightingales and turtle doves.
Cliffe Pools are also home to a range of other wildlife including water voles and harvest mice plus notable insects, such as the scarce emerald damselfly, shrill carder bee and green hairstreak butterfly. Plant species include nationally notable species, such as sea barley and annual beard grass.
Please be prepared for the fact that it is still a very young and developing reserve. In time, full visitor facilities will be provided at the southern end of the site off Salt Lane.
Opening times
Public footpaths are open at all times.
The place to...
…enjoy fantastic views over the North Kent Marshes, long walks around the blue pools, and a wealth of bird life, including massed flocks of ducks and wading birds, exciting migrant birds, breeding avocets, common terns, nightingales and turtle doves, and always the chance of something unusual.
Cliffe
Kent
Tel: 01634 222480
Grid reference: TQ720770
Click here for more information.
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