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A recent sunny afternoon at Hillyfields Meadow. All this habitat, rare unimproved grassland, will be lost if the proposed development goes ahead. Join us to stop this happening! If you have any good pictures of the area why not send them in to us for display.
A couple of weeks after the above pictures were taken Hillyfields Meadow has been mowed (late July), save for a section towards the rear. Where bees and other insects once buzzed and thrived now there is only silence and stubble. This land is of course under the management of the Homes and Communities Agency. You cannot help wondering whether leaving the cut until autumn would have conserved a lot of this wildlife. A few pictures below:
Before the cut
After the grass cut in July
After the grass was cut, not much of a habitat for insects & birds now!
A Marbled White butterfly only lives on unimproved grassland. The grassland in this picture is now stubble.
Peacock butterfly on a surviving buddleia within the airfield perimeter. Isn’t the nature on our doorstep beautiful!