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(Please select a reserve...) Aileshurst Coppice Badgers Hill Beaconwood And The Winsel Bishop's Field Boynes Coppice and Meadows Broadmoor Wood Broadway Gravel Pit Chaddesley Woods National Nature Reserve Chance Wood Cleeve Prior Reserve Crews Hill Wood Devil's Spittleful and Rifle Range Drake Street Meadow Droitwich Community Woods (formerly known as Briar Hill Coppice) Duke of York Meadow Feckenham Wylde Moor Fosters Green Meadows National Nature Reserve Grafton Wood Grimley Brick Pits Grovely Dingle Gwen Finch Wetland Reserve and Nafford Island Hanley Dingle Hill Court Farm and The Blacklands - The Andrew Fraser Reserve Hornhill Wood Humpy Meadow Hunthouse Wood Ipsley Alders Marsh Knapp & Papermill Knowles Coppice Lion Wood Long Meadow Lower Smite Farm Marsh Warbler Reserves Marshlands Meadow Melrose Farm Meadows Mill Meadow Monkwood Naunton Court Fields Newbourne Wood Pennels Bank Wood Penny Hill Bank Penorchard Meadows Pipers Hill and Dodderhill Common Poolhay Meadows Randan Wood Ravenshill Wood Spinneyfields Stockwood Meadows The Betts Reserve The Brotheridge Green Reserves Tiddesley Wood Trench Wood Tunnel Hill Meadow Upton Warren - the Christopher Cadbury Wetland Reserve Wilden Marsh Windmill Hill

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(Please select a reserve...) Aileshurst Coppice Badgers Hill Beaconwood And The Winsel Bishop's Field Boynes Coppice and Meadows Broadmoor Wood Broadway Gravel Pit Chaddesley Woods National Nature Reserve Chance Wood Cleeve Prior Reserve Crews Hill Wood Devil's Spittleful and Rifle Range Drake Street Meadow Droitwich Community Woods (formerly known as Briar Hill Coppice) Duke of York Meadow Feckenham Wylde Moor Fosters Green Meadows National Nature Reserve Grafton Wood Grimley Brick Pits Grovely Dingle Gwen Finch Wetland Reserve and Nafford Island Hanley Dingle Hill Court Farm and The Blacklands - The Andrew Fraser Reserve Hornhill Wood Humpy Meadow Hunthouse Wood Ipsley Alders Marsh Knapp & Papermill Knowles Coppice Lion Wood Long Meadow Lower Smite Farm Marsh Warbler Reserves Marshlands Meadow Melrose Farm Meadows Mill Meadow Monkwood Naunton Court Fields Newbourne Wood Pennels Bank Wood Penny Hill Bank Penorchard Meadows Pipers Hill and Dodderhill Common Poolhay Meadows Randan Wood Ravenshill Wood Spinneyfields Stockwood Meadows The Betts Reserve The Brotheridge Green Reserves Tiddesley Wood Trench Wood Tunnel Hill Meadow Upton Warren - the Christopher Cadbury Wetland Reserve Wilden Marsh Windmill Hill

 

 

The Trust cares for over 70 reserves, responsibility for which is taken by a team of three Conservation Reserves Officers, supported by volunteer reserve managers and helpers on each reserve.

Our nature reserves include:

Wetlands and pools. Refuges for otters, dragonflies and birds. So little remains that protection and restoration of this habitat is one of our highest priorities.

Ancient woodlands. Containing more variety of plant and animal than any other habitat. Carpeted with bluebells they are home to nationally endangered dormice and fritillary butterflies.

Wildflower meadows. Full of cowslips, orchids and butterflies- less than 1% now remain in England and over a quarter of these are in Worcestershire.

Lowland Heaths. The UK's most threatened habitat and home to rare and unusual flora. Remaining fragments are found at our reserves near Kidderminster and the Lickey Hills.

Farmland. Sympathetically managed farmland can host a wealth of wildlife including rare arable plant varieties. The Trust owns three farmland sites.

To learn more about Worcestershire's wildlife why not attend one of our courses in 2010?  Details will be available from January 4th?

 

Winter Reserves News

by Helen Woodman

Prolonging the life of veteran trees as beautiful wildlife sanctuaries and features in their own right and increasing the volume of laying dead wood under the veteran trees at Piper’s Hill Common has been a long term aim to benefit the wood-boring invertebrates found in the trees. We’ll be continuing with this important work this winter along with creating a scrubby hedgerow edge alongside the fields to provide a vital nectar source for the bugs, birds and butterflies.

A plea to our members: In September thieves removed some of the bollards that prevent unwelcome vehicle access and stole some of the strewn about wood. If you see anything suspicious on any of our reserves please take a note of the vehicle registration plate and contact the Police and the Trust.

Woodland rides have been opened using a new vegetation collecting mower in Trench, Monk and Grafton Woods which we hope will create healthy growing conditions for the grasses and herbs needed by butterflies and moths. There have been lovely displays of Devil’s-bit scabious and comma butterflies in Trench Wood; in Monkwood the rare drab looper moth is thriving. In August a rare spotted crake dropped into Upton Warren and jack snipe have been seen there regularly. Good numbers of grass snakes have been recorded by volunteers in Hockley Meadow, part of Chaddesley Wood and during our Volunteers’ Conference trip to Hill Court Farm in September several whinchat were seen flitting up and down above the hedgerow.

Volunteers collected the apples and pears from Melrose and 210kgs of perry pears have been sold to a local perry maker on Castlemorton Common.