Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

The grassland covers a large area in the centre of the site and is managed as a meadow, with species such as field scabious, wild carrot, lady's bedstraw, salad burnet, bird's-foot trefoil, common toadflax, bladder campion and chicory. The meadow brown and common blue butterfly have been recorded on site along with bumblebees and crickets. Gold finches and house sparrows were also recorded and likely using the site for foraging. The orchard is located in the north and contains a wide range of native fruit trees with scrub, including Callery Pear, wild cherry, crab and domesticated apple, hazel, wild service tree, privet, hawthorn and blackthorn. This area is valuable habitat for foraging birds and overwintering invertebrates, and complements the adjacent pollinator rich meadow. The south east of the site contains a number of large, mature, London Plane trees. The trees form an almost complete tree canopy cover with amenity grassland underneath. It also stag beetle loggeries. The remainder of the site has a good cover of planted shrubberies, overgrown vegetated walls and more recent ornamental grasses and herbaceous planting. Climbers included abundant honeysuckle, wisteria, ivy, Virginia creeper, clematis and jasmine. Other shrubs included dogwood, weeping birch, hornbeam and elder.

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