Dorset 2 - Brownsea Island (National Trust & Dorset Wildlife Trust NR): Red Squirrels. 30.03.21

To get to Brownsea Island, you need to get a Ferry from Poole Quay. Pool Quay is the historic part of Poole; most of Poole is post-wat building, as a result of damage sustained by bombing in WW2. Here are some of the historic building on the Quay

Poole Quay

The Customs House

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Historic pubs

Border force boat in the docks

Sailing ship.

The Brownsea Ferry

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The Lagoon from the ferry

Great Black-Headed Gulls, Avocets and Oystercatchers in the lagoon, seen from the ferry

Brownsea Island Nature Reserve

The Lagoon, from the paths and hides of the Brownsea Nature Reserve (Dorset Wildlife Trust)

Avocets

Black-Tailed Godwits

Shelducks, Black-Headed Gulls, and ducks

Avocet

Black-Tailed Godwits

The lagoon

Shellducks

Greenshank

Reshank

Shelducks

Black-Headed Gulls

Oystercatchers

Greylag Goose

Tern nesting islands (Terns hadn't arrived yet) with Black-Headed Gulls

Reed Beds

Black-headed Gull

The Lake

Shelducks

Looking down on the lagoon from the hill to the south of the lagoon

Woods on the hill

Red Squirrels

Chaffinch

Treecreeper

National Trust part of the Island

Ornamental Peacocks

Jay

South Shore Beach

Oystercatcher

Black-Headed Gulls

Oystercatcher

Curlew

Oystercathcer

Wood Ants

Song Thrush

Chaffinch

Another Chaffinch

Peacocks again

Pied Wagtail

Another Red Squirrel

The church

Black-Headed Gull

Buff-Tailed Bumblebee

Wren

From the ferry, leaving the island