Birds

Not far from Steep Meadow is the RSPB Nagshead  Nature Reserve which is open all year. You can wander along the trails or visit the hides looking for pied flycatchers, redstarts and spot the nestboxes.
The visitor centre is open from 10am to 5pm at weekends during the summer.

A viewpoint has been created at New fancy - formerly the site of the New Fancy coal mine. The old spoil tip provides spectacular views across the Forest and it is an ideal place to watch Goshawks.

At Symond's Yat the Peregrine Viewing Point  - RSPB staff and volunteers are on hand with telescopes to view the Peregrines from April until August. You can also see Buzzards, goshwaks, raven and jackdaws if you are lucky.

Goodrich Castle, which is only 5 miles away and the Coppet Hill Nature reserve are also good places to spot birds and you get the lovely views as well.

Beside the River Wye you can see the Dipper while in Bigsweir and Cadora woods you can spot see Greater spotted woodpeckers or you can sit in our garden and watch them try to drill holes in our telegraph pole!


Here is a selection of birds we regularly see or that guests have spotted  at Steep meadow and on the Common
Buzzards, Blackbirds, Blue tits,  Bull finches, Coal tits, Crows, Chaffinches, Collared doves, Common wood pigeon, Dunnock,
Great tits,  Green, Lesser spotted and spotted woodpeckers, Green finches,  Gold finches, Jays, Kestrels, Magpies, Nuthatch, Pied wagtails, Sparrows, Wrens, Skylarks, Yellowhammer, Tree creeper, Pheasants,  Ravens, Robins,Red Kites,Sparrow hawks, Tawny owls, Thrushes, Wood warblers, Willow warblers