Dunnet Head Outdoor Activities, Brough, Caithness, KW14 8YE Tel: 01847 851774 Email: [email protected] Walking, Fishing, Wildlife & Bird Watching  at the most northerly point of the UK mainland!

WILDLIFE 

Seals and dolphins can often be seen playing in Brough Bay - enjoy the little footpath between Little Clett Cottage and the Dunnet Head Information Point. 

Roe deer breed on the Head and can often be seen crossing the road, so please take care when driving, especially at dusk.

BIRD WATCHING

Birds are the most fascinating, varied and noticeable of the natural life around us. Watching them is popular and pleasurable.

The area around Dunnet Bay and Dunnet Head is of particular interest to Ornithologists. Embracing the principal bird habitats of land, waterside and water, there is an abundant variety of birdlife.

The land is basically grassland or heather moor with a little woodland. Waterside habitat lies adjacent to the area’s lochs, feeder streams, ditches and bogs. The lochs also provide a water habitat, but the main water area is obviously the sea around the shore, which has both sandy dunes and rocky cliffs.

How you act will affect how much bird life you see. Go quietly - especially during the breeding season.

For the enthusiast, there is a hide overlooking a shallow pond at the North West corner of St. John’s Loch. Further information may be obtained from Julian Smith, St. John’s, Brough. 01847 851280.

BEST SITES TO VIEW BIRDS

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