'The Clyst viewing platform offers panoramic views over the estuary and a good variety of wildlife is seen as the tide rises and falls.
Bowling Green Marsh is on the east bank of the Exe Estuary... It overlooks the Clyst and allows over-wintering birds a choice of safe roosting sites as the rising tide pushes them off the mudflats.
It's the main high tide roost for the north of the estuary and one of the best places to watch birds in south-west England. You can see large numbers of waterbirds at very close range in winter - hundreds of black-tailed godwits and wigeons feed close to the hide. Throughout the year, the open water attracts many different species of wetland birds; little grebes, mute swans and a variety of ducks breed here.'
More information can be found at the RSPB website: http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/b/bowlinggreenmarsh/about.aspx
This cache is a late addition (I had to wait for permission from the RSPB to hide it) to my 8-cache walk around the outskirts of Topsham.
Wheelchair users can access the cache itself but the viewing platform is only accessible via steps.