A site of coastal cliffs and sand dunes, proposed to the Society as a locality for scarce plants like the Scottish primrose. Despite now being next to Dounreay Nuclear Power Plant, part of the original site at Sandside Bay is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), and, along with the coastline to the west of it, falls within a Special Protection Area (SPA) – a European designation recognising the importance of the area for breeding birds such as peregrine falcon, puffin, fulmar, razorbill and kittiwake.
(Above) the original SPNR survey documents for the Reay
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