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- Log piles have been established to provide a medium for fungi to
flourish as well as lots of mini-beasts such as centipedes, millipedes,
beetles and woodlice. The rotting wood thus also provides an excellent
food source and a warm, damp habitat for newts, frogs and toads, all
of which spend most of the year out of the pond, feeding amongst vegetation
in the ditches and hedgerows.
- Hay cut from the meadow is mounded in one
corner of the site and acts as habitat for other types of fungi and
a breeding site for Grass Snakes,
which are completely harmless and thrive in ponds and wetlands.
- Bird
and bat boxes have been erected on mature trees around the site, to
compensate for the absence of natural hollows and crevices. So far
Blue Tits and Great Tits have nested in the bird boxes.
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