Finding Your Way Around

Brodgar Finding your way around

Ring of Brodgar Nature reserve footpath footpath It’s a 330 m stroll from the car park It’s worth taking the time to explore to the Ring of Brodgar, including this iconic site further. Stroll around a boardwalk lined by wetland the loch shore on our 1.5 mile (2 km) wildflowers in spring and summer. path for views of the whole area from a different angle, including the You could spot almost any of Orkney’s nearby Stones of Stenness. birds flying over the Ring itself, from curlews to Arctic skuas. Look around Look out for common seals in the loch. to appreciate the landscape in which Skylarks and curlews nest nearby and these 36 stones sit: a bowl of hills, at any time of year you could spot alive with wildlife all year round. brown hares in the surrounding fields.

In spring sedge Key warblers and reed buntings sing from the bushes here. You might Grassland even be lucky enough to hear a drumming snipe. Water

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Kissing gate Look out for curlew, redshank, Parking oystercatcher and lapwing chicks in this field. Their Disabled parking watchful parents often perch on Loch of Harray Ring of Brodgar footpath In spring marsh marigold nearby fence posts. brightens these wet areas. You may spot shelducks, Nature reserve footpath shovelers, teals or perhaps a passing pintail on the pools. Public footpath

Please keep dogs under Ring of close control and don’t enter Brodgar fields with lambs or calves.

In spring, male meadow pipits Wondering what the old bales, display above the seaweed and manure are for? Ring, flying high then They encourage nettles and parachuting down on cow parsley, offering shelter outstretched wings. in early spring and autumn to Orkney voles and corncrakes.

Loch of Stenness N To Stones In winter you might spot of Stenness wigeons, teals, mallards, tufted ducks, scaups, W E pochards or Slavonian grebes on either loch. S

0 150m 300m Common seals often “banana” on rocks offshore here.