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Potteric Carr is managed by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is near Doncaster, just off the M18 motorway.
This Site of Special Scientific Interest has been created on land of former coal industry, railways and farmland, though the reserve is still dissected by the East Coast Main Line. Within more than 500 acres there is open water, reed beds, marsh, scrub and woodland, and with it a tremendous diversity of flora and fauna.
Potteric Carr is becoming one of the best places to see Bittern, with up to 6 birds being present in the winter.
Below is a list of birds I've seen on several visits at different times of the year.
| Blackbird Blackcap Black-headed Gull Blue Tit Bullfinch Canada Goose Carrion Crow Chaffinch Chiffchaff Coal Tit Coot Cormorant Dunnock Gadwall Goldcrest Goldfinch Great Crested Grebe Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Green Woodpecker Grey Heron |
Greylag Goose Jackdaw Jay Kestrel Kingfisher Lapwing Linnet Little Grebe Long-tailed Tit Magpie Mallard Mediterranean Gull Moorhen Mute Swan Oystercatcher Pheasant Pied Wagtail Pochard Redpoll Redshank Reed Bunting |
Robin Ruddy Duck Sand Martin Shelduck Shoveler Skylark Snipe Sparrowhawk Starling Stock Dove Swallow Teal Tufted Duck Whitethroat Wigeon Willow Tit Willow Warbler Wood Pigeon Wren Yellowhammer |
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