Wildlife along the Tring Reservoirs

Tring Reservoirs, Tring, Hertfordshire. © John Wood

The waters are extremely clear and rich in minerals attracting an abundance of water plants, insects and fish. This plentiful supply together with the open water, reed beds and surrounding woodlands in turn attracts a large population of breeding, wintering and migrating birds.

Tring Reservoirs were made ornithologically famous by the first nesting in this country of Black-necked Grebes in 1918 and by the first British breeding of Little Ringed Plover twenty years later. The wide variety of wintering and breeding wetland birds continues to delight visitors who are invited to make use of the bird hides.