Riverside Nature Park

The land at Riverside Nature Park was created from landfill, once full it was capped with soil and landscaped. This was a great opportunity to create new habitat for wildlife in Dundee and a place for people to enjoy the Tay Estuary.

The Tay Estuary is a Special Protection Area (SPA), Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a Ramsar site because of the internationally important numbers of birds that live here and visit, including pink-footed geese, redshank and bar-tailed godwit. The park is ideal for bird watching with views over the estuary from many of the paths.

The wildflower meadows are home to many species of flowers, including cowslips, red campion and two types of orchids, and are fantastic habitat for invertebrates. In addition to the lochan there are three ponds in the park, frogs, toads and smooth newts have all been found there along with damselflies and dragonflies.

The Friends of Riverside Nature Park regularly carry out activities and events in the park and they have made many improvements to the park for wildlife.

Year round interest includes stunning views over the estuary plus wading birds feeding on the mudflats and roosting around the park. In autumn and winter, enjoy the spectacle of thousands of pink-footed geese alongside hundreds of other wading birds on the mudflats. Then in spring and summer listen to the skylarks singing high above you as a riot of colour in the wildflower meadows is buzzing with butterflies and other insects feeding.