Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

Burtonhole Lane is flanked by tall hedgerows, which have grown into woodland strips in places. A good variety of shrubs grow here including hawthorn, blackthorn, elder, bramble, suckering elm, dog-rose and field rose. There are lesser amounts of hazel, holly, goat willow and wild service-tree. A number of stately trees, mostly pedunculate oak and ash, tower over the hedges. Plants growing at the base of the hedge include wood forget-me-not, heath groundsel, great horsetail, stone parsley, barren strawberry, bluebell, ramsons, dog's mercury and lesser periwinkle. The wet ditch here has common marsh-bedstraw and marsh cudweed and supports breeding frogs. Birds frequenting the hedgerows include chaffinch, bullfinch, goldcrest and green woodpecker. Mammals include stoat, weasel and bank vole. The two fields lie to the east of Burtonhole Lane. The grass is dominated by Yorkshire fog, with tufted hair-grass in places. Damper areas are rich in plants, including sneezewort, pepper-saxifrage, greater bird's-foot-trefoil, false fox-sedge, cuckooflower and marsh thistle. The Burtonhole Brook crosses the fields, and contains plicate sweet-grass, water-pepper, common water-starwort and water mint. The small, shaded pool in the northeast of the site is fringed with crack willows.

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