Weekday and Weekend Walks, and Weekend Coach Outings
Moor Green Lakes 2018
Saturday morning walk
Moor Green Lakes
Meet 9.30am in the car park, Lower Sandhurst Road, Eversley, Berks, near RG40 3TF.
OS SU805628 Lat/Long: 51.3586, -0.8442
The car park is small, please read this parking information
Three former gravel pits were restored in 1993 with islands and scrapes to create the Moor Green Lakes Nature Reserve. More recent gravel workings to the west are being added to the reserve. There are ash, willow, maple and hazel trees, scrub and grassland. The river Blackwater runs along the southern edge of the site.
Bird feeders in the free car park but no toilets or food. Two hides, two screens. A walk of up to four miles on footpaths, no steep slopes, mud probable.
Regular visitors include Canada, greylag, barnacle and Egyptian geese, wigeon, pochard, gadwall, teal, goosander, shoveler, goldeneye, tufted duck, coot, grebes, gulls, thrushes, nuthatch, reed bunting, stonechat, linnet, meadow pipit, finches and siskin. The barn owl can sometimes be seen in its box. Rarer are bittern, smew, little egret, snipe, water rail, green sandpiper, kingfisher, redpoll, goldcrest and brambling. Expect around 40 species.