About the reserve

This reserve covers the wide, flat-bottomed Fal estuary, whose mudflats contain white china clay waste once washed downriver from the clay extraction sites near St Austell. The land contours create sheltered conditions and oak trees grow down to the tidal waters. Greenshanks are often seen here and small numbers of black-tailed godwit visit from July to January. Invertebrate animals live in the mud and create the rich estuarine ecosystem