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Sturmer Meadow - East Town Park

 

This was formerly an arable field and is now being managed to benefit common lizards and slow-worms. The grassland is vital for foraging for slugs, snails and insects which make up their diet, together with log-piles which provide basking areas on sunny days.

Haverhill is important for its reptile populations, but unfortunately many sites are being lost to development.

Scrub is being cleared to encourage the railway embankments to revert to grassland, again to benefit reptiles, but also grasshoppers and bush-crickets as well as wildflowers like agrimony and knapweeds.


 

Contact details:

Parks
St Edmundsbury Borough Council
West Suffolk House
Western Way
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP33 3YU

Phone: 01284 757067
Email:
parks@stedsbc.gov.uk

Lizard in Sturmer Meadow
 
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