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Wildlife at Glasslaw Car Park Dunnottar Woodland Park
Aberdeenshire
Scotland
Stonehaven is the nearest town or village.
OS Grid Reference: NO 864 844
 This car park has a fenced off picnic area (please do not allow your dog inside this area) part of which is suitable for wheelchair users. The nearest parking spaces are reserved for less able visitors.
In the past there has been dog fouling problems in the picnic area, so we have also waymarked a short dog walkers loop. If you have a dog, please follow the Dog Loop signs before joining the main paths.
In the spring and early summer area around the car park and picnic area is full of wildflowers.
There are no waymarked paths in this wood, but there are a series of signposts and mapposts which will let you find your own way on the paths through the wood.
Mammals: As well as the small mammals - shrews, mice and voles - red squirrel and roe deer are regularly seen here. We have information about Red squirrel and Roe deer
Birds: After the song-filled days of spring, the woodlands grow quieter until chicks are hatched and independant. Territorial song is replaced by contact calls as the family flocks move together through the canopy seeking good sources of food.
Throughout the autumn and winter many small woodland bird find shelter within Dunnottar Wood. Listen out for flocks of siskins - their "cheeping" contact calls help to keep the flock together. Mixed flocks of blue tits, great tits, coal tits, treecreepers and gold crests can been seen regularly.
Insects and reptiles: Check out the tree leaves as you pass in summer time - inside some of the leaves tiny leaf miner beetle larvae tunnel along. You can spot their pale meandering paths if you hold a leaf up to the light.
As the cold of winter starts to bite, queen wasps look for dry and secure places to hibernate, as the rest of the byke begins to die. Most wasps only live for one year. Habitats: The very varied mix of trees around this car park and picnic area is a source of food and shelter to very many insects, birds and mammals. The meadow picnic area rings the seasonal changes with buttercups, eyebright, silverweed and ladies mantle. As autumn turns to winter, the vivid russets and yellows are fringed with icy lace.
How to get there:
Drive south from the centre of Stonehaven on the A957. Just before the dual carriageway there is a track in to your right. The car park is sign posted on your right about 20m along this track.
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There is a fenced off area set aside with picnic tables. |
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Other places to go in Dunnottar Woodland Park
Quarry Car Park
Contact:
Liz Wallace
01466 794161
e-mail: liz.wallace@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
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What to see now Squirrels and forest birds feeding on conifer seeds.
Did you know Coal tits will store food when there is plenty, and recover it when they are hungry. We don't know if they remember where they hide it, or whether they just store food in the kind of places where they would naturally look - in bark cracks and crevices, for example.
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