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Winter is the best time to experience the wildfowl spectacle, as many ducks including tufted duck, pochard, gadwall and great crested grebe use Langford Lakes as their wintering grounds.
During the summer the reserve is brimming with other birds as well as butterflies, dragonflies and wetland wild flowers.
Look out for the flash of blue as a kingfisher darts across the lake, or the sound of the elusive, now scarce, water vole as it plops into the water. Wildlife:
Mammals: water voles, otter
Birds: kingfisher, great crested grebes, little grebes, herons, tufted duck, pochard, gadwall, mallard, coot, common sandpiper, water rail, mute swans, (the list seems endless)
Invertebrates (minibeasts): a wide variety of dragonflies, butterflies, moths, creatures in the pond and river
Flowers: typical wetland flowers such as yellow flag iris, ragged robin, cuckoo flower, bog bean, rushes, reeds Getting there:
By car: Just off the A36 Salisbury to Warminster road – take sign for The Langfords. In Steeple Langford turn into Duck Street. Nature reserve entrance is on the left-hand side, once you have crossed the river.
Bicycle: Langford lakes is 250m from National Cycle Network Route 24.
Grid reference SU036370.
Langford Lakes Nature Reserve.
Langford Lakes offer fantastic opportunities to experience the autumn migration of birds such as waders, terns and osprey, as they fly in on an important stopover as part of their migration to warmer climes.Winter is the best time to experience the wildfowl spectacle, as many ducks including tufted duck, pochard, gadwall and great crested grebe use Langford Lakes as their wintering grounds.
During the summer the reserve is brimming with other birds as well as butterflies, dragonflies and wetland wild flowers.
Look out for the flash of blue as a kingfisher darts across the lake, or the sound of the elusive, now scarce, water vole as it plops into the water. Wildlife:
Mammals: water voles, otter
Birds: kingfisher, great crested grebes, little grebes, herons, tufted duck, pochard, gadwall, mallard, coot, common sandpiper, water rail, mute swans, (the list seems endless)
Invertebrates (minibeasts): a wide variety of dragonflies, butterflies, moths, creatures in the pond and river
Flowers: typical wetland flowers such as yellow flag iris, ragged robin, cuckoo flower, bog bean, rushes, reeds Getting there:
By car: Just off the A36 Salisbury to Warminster road – take sign for The Langfords. In Steeple Langford turn into Duck Street. Nature reserve entrance is on the left-hand side, once you have crossed the river.
Bicycle: Langford lakes is 250m from National Cycle Network Route 24.
Grid reference SU036370.
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