Scottish Wildlife Trust, Montrose Basin Visitor Centre and Wildlife Reserve — Attraction in Scotland

Entry is £5.50 per adult, varying prices for children and concessions. The centre is open from 10.30m to 5pm from March to October. Winter hours are a bit different, closing at 4pm and only open Friday - Monday. There are tea, coffee and biscuits available (with vegan milk options) which you can take to a window and have while you use the telescopes at the viewing areas. The toilets are lovely and clean. There is lots to see here and lots of information to read. The girl on the desk was really nice too and told us about the swallows which have begun nesting on their fire escape! We had a lovely time photographing the local birds here and saw a buzzard, beautiful collared doves, robins, tree sparrows, chaffinches, gorgeous greenfinches, yellowhammers as well as redshank, eider ducks and oystercatchers from the hide onsite. We did get a bit lost trying to find our way to the other various bird hides on the basin map when we left and ended up at places where we felt we couldn't leave the car. We'll try again another day. We should have asked at the visitor centre for extra directions, not being from here we didn't know the area...

Montrose Basin, nearly 800 hectares of tidal mudflats and surrounding scrub and grassland offering suitable habitat for many water birds, ducks and waders, some resident and many wintering birds such as Pink Foot Geese. The whole site is managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust who have a Centre on the south shore, open daily in summer and Friday and weekends in winter. The centre has an array of feeders and close views of small pools where Kingfisher appear and a nest wall for Sand Martins. They also have new telescopes for visitors to use, and binoculars along with identification books and staff always keen to help. The Bank of Scotland Hide within the centre grounds overlooks the salt pans to the east of the centre via a short pathway. The salt pans area was landscaped to provide better habitat for nesting and migrant birds in 2022, it has grown in nicely but presently the ponds appear to be too deep in some areas....

Nice wee visit here. Used the telescopes and binoculars which there were plenty of to view over the basin and watched seals and the different birds for a while. Plenty of info and plenty to keep the kids occupied with a kids corner with microscope and different activity items. Plenty of books to read up on the wildlife. It was around about £8 for a family of 4 to visit. Bit we decided to join the wildlife trust and got that refunded. £54 for the year and can visit over 120 sites in Scotland. You also get magazines and a welcome gift of a cuddly red squirrel which our youngest loves. I'm sure the membership will become useful over the year. The staff on hand were very helpful and explained ed about the area and anything I asked in regards to the trust etc was more than...