Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

Most of Manor Park is formally managed, with amenity grassland, exotic trees and dense planted shrubbery, which attract a number of bird species familiar in parks and gardens. The area to the west, through which the River Quaggy flows, is much wilder, with a mix of scattered trees, scrub and tall flowers. The most common trees are sycamore, willows and poplar, below which there is some scrub of elder, elm and bramble. The ground flora beneath the trees includes cow parsley, herb-robert, and wood avens. The stream itself hosts water figwort and pendulous sedge along with some extensive stands of the invasive Japanese knotweed. Blackcaps sometimes nest in this secluded area.To the north of the park, a few mosses, liverworts and hart's-tongue fern grow on the old brick walls that line the river.

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