Bute has some wonderful birding sites where a wide range of birds can be found all year round. With a little effort well over 50 species can be ticked off on any day of the year if you plan your visit well. Bird hides are located at The Kirk Dam, Ettrick Bay, Loch Ascog and Loch Quien. Click for more information on a specific site.<\/p>\n
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Bute’s Best Bird Sites\u00a0 Bute has some wonderful birding sites where a wide range of birds can be found all year round. With a little effort well over 50 species can be ticked off on any day of the year if you plan your visit well. Bird hides are located at The Kirk Dam, Ettrick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
Bute has some wonderful birding sites where a wide range of birds can be found all year round. With a little effort well over 50 species can be ticked off on any day of the year if you plan your visit well. Bird hides are located at The Kirk Dam, Ettrick Bay, Loch Ascog and Loch Quien. For more information on a specific site click on the menu on the right hand side.<\/p>[caption id=\"attachment_101\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"800\"] \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Loch](\"http:\/\/staging.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/Loch-Fad-Doug-Menzies.jpg\")
<\/a> Loch Fad[\/caption][caption id=\"attachment_116\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"800\"]![\"St](\"http:\/\/staging.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/St-Ninians-Saltmarsh-Doug.jpg\")
<\/a> St Ninian's Saltmarsh[\/caption][caption id=\"attachment_98\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"800\"]![\"The](\"http:\/\/staging.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/Kirk-Dam-from-bird-hide-Do.jpg\")
<\/a> The Kirk Dam[\/caption]