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| What better feeding habitat for waders - including green sandpipers - than this flood attenuation basin? |
BIRDERS would not normally identify a housing estate as a place to catch up with wetland birds.
But Barratt Homes seem to have created an intriguing 'pocket' reserve at their Wigmore Park development in New Waltham, near Cleethorpes, in North East Lincolnshire.
Among waders to have put in an appearance are up to three green sandpipers, with at least one of them over-wintering.
Also on site are three large sandy mounds - who's to say they won't attract sand martins (or hoopoes and bee eaters!) in summer?
Such is the housebuilding company's pioneering approach to nature that, as the scheme progresses, it is also keen to incorporate no fewer than 102 swiftbricks - and 22 bat boxes - into the external walls of the houses.
Oh yes, and at least one fence in every garden has a small space to allow for free movement of hedgehogs.
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| Who knows what birds these mounds might attract come summer? |
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| Sold! The three swiftbricks come with a house |
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| Plenty of green space at Wigmore Park development |
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| Swifts, bats and not forgetting the prickly little fellows |
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| Barratt Homes are believed to have been working closely with the RSPB both here and elsewhere in the UK |
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