“Fantastic to see a murmuration, it really is an amazing spectacle!”
Created from a gravel extraction quarry, the 41ha Ripon City Wetlands is on the River Ure floodplain. It is next to Ripon Racecourse, about 3.5km from the cathedral and not the city park, which it name might suggest. A YWT reserve since 2019, it is a mosaic of habitats designed by Middlemarch Environmental and constructed by Aggregate Industries to attract birds.