Yesterday afternoon on the former Birks Hall and Shroggs Tip sites. Bird life was very quiet (time of year I think) but the area has wonderful habitat on both sites.
Birks hall (access from Brackenbed Lane)is full of young trees including rosa, rowan, birch, alder, hawthorn, blackthorn, willow, oak and maple with an interesting understory including willow herb, nettles, blackberry etc. It looks a wonderful site for warblers, insects and later on wintering thrushes.
Shroggs tip site(up from B&Q and Dorlux)is planted around the edges with alder and birch etc and has a broad expanse of flat grassland in the middle. All the grasses are flowering and setting seed and there were hundreds of meadow brown butterflies and probably a few other interesting insects too.
3 comments:
Isn't this the site for the proposed new Bus garage?
Yes Nick but I am not aware of any further developments - are you?
No, Sean is checking planning applications on a weekly basis and hasn't raised this (yet)
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