Arne
You will find the Headquarters for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) at Arne, a beautiful nature reserve overlooking Poole Harbour, approximately 4 miles from the Worgret Manor Hotel.
At Arne, you can watch nightjars and Dartford warblers, along with all six species of British reptiles and 22 different kinds of dragonflies. During the winter, you can also Brent geese, black-tailed godwits and red breasted mergansers, along with a large number of other waders and wildfowl.
Tel: 01929 553 360
Car park gets locked at dusk
Radipole Lake
16 miles from the Hotel, in the centre of Weymouth, you will find a push chair and wheel chair friendly reserve with a large reed bed, open water, flood meadows and scrub that attracts a good range of birds all year round. Here, bearded tits and Cetti’s warblers are joined by sedge, grasshopper and reed warblers in the summer and migrating birds, stopping to rest as they head south, in the autumn.
Opening times: Visitor Centre – daily 9-5 (4.pm in winter) Hide: 8.30 – 4.30
Lodmoor
15 miles from the Hotel, in Weymouth One of the largest breeding colonies of common terns.
Tel: 01305 778 313
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