Stocksmoor Common YWT
Midgley
Site Description
Recorders: Length 1020m Walk Time Approx: 35 mins Altitude 145m Established 2023
A mix of grassland, accounting for about half of the site, damp meadow and a pond with smaller areas of developing woodland & scrub.
Good for a wide variety of flora and fauna including plant species such as Adder’s Tongue Fern, Common Spotted Orchid and Common Fleabane. Breeding birds include Tree pipit, Linnet, Willow Tit and Tawny Owl, and the pond attracts a good range of dragonflies and damselflies including Emporer Dragonfly.
Contains a good colony of the threatened Small Heath Butterfly
Sections
Only 6 weeks data at the end of the season but surprised at the good numbers of Small Heath present
S2 + S3 seem to contian te hmost valuable grassalnd species