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The view from Berry Head National Nature Reserve.
This site gives regular updates from the Rangers at Berry Head on wildlife sightings, events, projects, ways to get involved and anything else that comes to mind.
Berry Head is a limestone peninsula rising 200’ (65m) from the sea, forming the southern arm of Tor Bay in South Devon. It is a 100-acre National Nature Reserve, holding nationally rare plant and animal species and is also a Country Park that forms the main recreational area for the nearby town and port of Brixham (population 16,000).
The site holds two well-preserved Napoleonic War-era Forts and important Second-World War heritage and lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and on the South West Coast Path.
The rare plants that grow on its thin, dessicated limestone soils form a community that is not found anywhere else in the UK. A colony of Greater Horseshoe bats lives in caves in the limestone, a species that is protected by international statute because of its rarity and the steep decline in its numbers across the UK.
The colony of Guillemots breeding on the cliffs is the largest on the Channel coast and the most southerly in the UK. At the same time the Head is hugely popular with walkers, day-trippers, fishermen, rock-climbers, naturalists, historians and picnickers, making it one of Torbay’s top ten most visited attractions.
To find out more visit www.countryside-trust.org.uk
Berry Head is a limestone peninsula rising 200’ (65m) from the sea, forming the southern arm of Tor Bay in South Devon. It is a 100-acre National Nature Reserve, holding nationally rare plant and animal species and is also a Country Park that forms the main recreational area for the nearby town and port of Brixham (population 16,000).
The site holds two well-preserved Napoleonic War-era Forts and important Second-World War heritage and lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and on the South West Coast Path.
The rare plants that grow on its thin, dessicated limestone soils form a community that is not found anywhere else in the UK. A colony of Greater Horseshoe bats lives in caves in the limestone, a species that is protected by international statute because of its rarity and the steep decline in its numbers across the UK.
The colony of Guillemots breeding on the cliffs is the largest on the Channel coast and the most southerly in the UK. At the same time the Head is hugely popular with walkers, day-trippers, fishermen, rock-climbers, naturalists, historians and picnickers, making it one of Torbay’s top ten most visited attractions.
To find out more visit www.countryside-trust.org.uk