Shian Wood has a beautiful setting on a peninsula on the south shore of Loch Creran, and is a good example of the woods of the west coast of Scotland. It is home to a variety of species including buzzards, woodcocks, redstarts and sedge warblers as well as roe deer.
Species - Buzzard, woodcock, redstart and sedge warbler. Roe deer. Marsh fritillary, Scotch argus and speckled wood butterflies, and the narrow-bordered bee hawk moth.
Location - South shore of Loch Creran, on a minor road off the A828(T) north of Benderloch.