A great place to see birds all year round, with rare habitats including one of the last areas of lowland heath in Derbyshire.
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Spring for bluebells and autumn for heatherAbout the reserve
Carvers Rocks lies at the southern end of Foremark Reservoir.
Its unusual habitats include marsh, alder woodland and sphagnum moss. During summer the wet marshes are a good place to see and hear reed buntings, while the reservoir fringe has breeding great crested grebes.
On the drier slopes woodland takes over and various woodland birds can be seen and heard. In the more open areas you may hear woodcock on early summer evenings.
On the tops, soils are much thinner and woodland is replaced by bracken and in places heather - the reserve has one of the last patches of lowland heath in Derbyshire and the Trust has planted further areas with heather to extend the heathland.
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Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)