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Overview
Birds
Notable Species
Rarities
Check-list
Birds you can see here include:
Include in this section only birds which are 'likely' to be seen. Use the Rarities section for those birds that have been recorded there but are not regularly seen.
Other Wildlife
Site Information
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust supported by Grundon Waste Management, Heritage Lottery Fund, English Nature & The Environment Agency have in recent years acquired an area of over 200 acres of former farmland next to the Trust's Coombe Hill Canal Nature Reserve in the Severn Vale. These areas have now been combined to form Coombe Hill Nature Reserve.
The farmland used to be part of the Coombe Hill Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI - a designation given to the country's most important wildlife sites) but in the 1970's & 1980's due to agricultural 'improvements' much of this area's wildlife interest was lost and most of the area was removed from the SSSI designation. The Trust's Management Plan for the meadows, ditches, hedges and long pools is to restore this once important area to it's former condition as a very valuable Wetland Habitat.
The Reserve falls within the Severn and Avon Vales Wetland Partnership area. The Trust is a key partner in this initative which aims to develop and create a wetland landscape within the River Severn floodplain
