Habitats: Orchard

Farmland can conjure up rural images of brown hares zig-zagging across fields, chattering flocks of finches and yellowhammers singing from thick, bushy hedges and field margins studded with wildflowers.

This remote and tranquil reserve comprises woodland, nesting within an area of pasture and orchard.

• Nature Reserves
• Woodland

Ancient Woodland with large areas undergoing restoration from more modern commercial forestry.

• Blean
• Nature Reserves
• Woodland

A visit to a traditional orchard reveals gnarled old trunks of fruit and nut trees bursting with blossoms and young leaves in springtime, with wildflowers and insects populating summer’s long grass, and foraging wildlife attracted by autumn’s fallen fruit.

• Food and Farming
• Habitats