This is a list of the useful updates, we have received from our readers, for the sites listed in Best Birdwatching Sites: Dorset
BRACKETT'S MEADOW
Instead of using the entrance by the farm, there is a slightly bigger car park (and no barking farm dogs) on Rye Water Lane, which takes you across two or three meadows (full of wildflowers and butterflies in summer) before entering the woodland.
To get there from the A356 from Maiden Newton, take the 2nd of 2 right turns to Corscombe (about 2 miles past the B3163 left turn to Beaminster). Turn left at the T-junction in the village and after approx 1 mile , follow the road round a sharp left bend into Rye Water Lane. The car park is shortly after that on the right behind a field gate. Follow the tracks leftwards through the meadows over a couple of stiles and into the woods. The last meadow is where you can find marsh fritillaries in early June.
In the other grazed meadows to the east of the stream there are hundreds of common and heath-spotted orchids, and greater butterfly orchids in the edges of the recently-cleared scrubby woodland.
(Updated 18/3/13 - our thanks to reader JM)
Instead of using the entrance by the farm, there is a slightly bigger car park (and no barking farm dogs) on Rye Water Lane, which takes you across two or three meadows (full of wildflowers and butterflies in summer) before entering the woodland.
To get there from the A356 from Maiden Newton, take the 2nd of 2 right turns to Corscombe (about 2 miles past the B3163 left turn to Beaminster). Turn left at the T-junction in the village and after approx 1 mile , follow the road round a sharp left bend into Rye Water Lane. The car park is shortly after that on the right behind a field gate. Follow the tracks leftwards through the meadows over a couple of stiles and into the woods. The last meadow is where you can find marsh fritillaries in early June.
In the other grazed meadows to the east of the stream there are hundreds of common and heath-spotted orchids, and greater butterfly orchids in the edges of the recently-cleared scrubby woodland.
(Updated 18/3/13 - our thanks to reader JM)
