Sandilands Pit
Flooded clay pit which supports a variety of birds.
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Flooded clay pit which supports a variety of birds.
The area was formerly a sand pit and the main interest is ornithological.
Clay pit which is attractive to wading birds and surface-feeding wildfowl.
Hitchcopse Pit is an old sandpit with a fascinating array of plant and insect life.
A flooded pit with marginal reed beds and aquatic plants, such as water-crowfoot and great reed mace.
A small gravel pit now a safe haven for chalk grassland
Clay pit with large open water area as well as extensive reedbeds.
The reserve consists of heathland, small areas of pasture, and open water, which was created by flooding the disused clay pits.
Plenty of plants, birds and mammals have colonised this seasonally-flooded former gravel pit.
A sliver of beech woodland and chalk grassland, Hurley Chalk Pit is visited by 15 species of butterfly and is home to wild orchids.
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