Photo of Montrose Basin Wildlife Centre, a nature reserve in the Angus, north east Scotland.

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Montrose Basin Wildlife Centre

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The Montrose Basin Wildlife Centre is a Scottish Wildlife Trust visitor centre looking out over a big tidal basin that fills with geese, ducks and wading birds. Autumn is the headline show, when thousands of pink-footed geese pour in. There’s a charge for the centre with its telescopes and hides, though the wider reserve is free to walk. Montrose station is about 2km to the east.

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