Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

The course includes several valuable areas of scrub which have developed out of ancient hedges. There are five ponds or seasonally fluctuating water bodies on the course which provide valuable wildlife habitat. Great crested newts breed on the site and the ponds support good populations of several dragonfly species. The park to the south includes several semi-natural habitats which compliment those on the golf course. There are several areas of rough grassland which provide habitat for common invertebrates including grasshoppers, crickets and butterflies. Trees of several species and mixed ages occur including a fine old pollard oak in the south. Even the frequently mown grassland has some interest as there are lots of humps and hollows providing a variety of conditions. A pond in the south-west is well vegetated with lots of planted species and is now mainly dominated by great reedmace but some broad-leaved pondweed survives in the more open areas. One of the more interesting species in the nearby grassland is sneezewort which is uncommon in London but occurs in some of the damp unimproved meadows in Ealing.

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