Description:

The Trust's largest nature reserve covering some 628 hectares is divided into three sections: Pegwell Bay and the Central Section and Buffer Zone to the south of the River Stour.

The reserve is made up of a complex mosaic of habitats: inter-tidal mudflats, saltmarsh, shingle, sand dunes, ancient dune pasture, chalk cliffs, wave cut platform and coastal scrubland. It is the best remaining complex of this type in southeast England, showing a complete series of seashore habitats from bare mud to mature dune pasture and scrubland.

The reserve is of international importance for its waders and wildfowl, best seen over winter or during the spring and autumn migrations. In winter, common waders such as dunlin, curlew, oystercatcher and redshank are joined by nationally important numbers of sanderling and grey plover. All these are best seen on the mudflats of Pegwell Bay. In summer, redshank, shelduck and oystercatcher stay to breed, and are joined on the shingle by ringed plovers and the rare little tern.

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