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N A T U R E R E S E R V E S
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Little Paxton Nature Reserve
(left photo)-just
North of the Old Town of St Neots in
Cambridgeshire in the small village of Little
Paxton. The village lies on the River Ouse,
along which there are huge beds of gravel,
remnants from the Ice Age. The gravel is
quarried for concrete, road building and many
other purposes. When an area is worked out, the
old gravel pits of fill
with water and became
havens for wildlife. |
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Wicken
Fen, just north of Cambridge. Home to exotic wildlife -
birds, butterflies, dragonflies,
and Filipina.
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Fowlmere Nature Reserve, near
Melbourn, is the site of a series of springs which
emerge from underground after trickling down through the
chalk downs to the south. The word means (more or less)
lake with lots of ducks. Certainly there are extensive
reedbeds, and many waterfowl both shelter there in
winter and breed in summer. The mere is surrounded by
scrub and woodland, giving a diverse range of habitats
for wildlife of many sorts.
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