Saare observation tower

From this observation tower you can view with binoculars the birds swimming on the Sutlepa sea. During spring and autumn migration you can see thousands of aquatic birds stopping here (swans, ducks, aythyas, long-tailed ducks etc).

In the Silma Nature Reserve in Lääne County, a 7.5-metre tower at the end of the Saare trail lets you watch birds on the Sutlepa sea, a lagoon cut off from the sea by land uplift. During spring and autumn migration thousands of waterbirds rest here: swans, ducks, scaup, long-tailed ducks and scoters. With a telescope you may find rarer species such as the Slavonian grebe and the reserve's emblem bird, the black tern. On April and May evenings the bittern booms from the reeds like someone blowing across a bottle, and white-tailed eagles glide over the water.