Old Roar Gill & Coronation Wood
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The photograph on this page of Old Roar Gill & Coronation Wood by N Chadwick as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © N Chadwick Taken: 17 Apr 2010
Old Roar Gill & Coronation Wood, a Local Nature Reserve open to the public. This gill woodland makes a wonderful habitat for a wide range of birds and those that nest here include spotted flycatcher, kingfisher, grey wagtail and lesser spotted woodpecker. Coronation Wood was planted in 1937 as part of a scheme to celebrate the coronation of King George VI and further trees, or replacements, have been added from time to time. It is managed as amenity woodland with trees that will be allowed to develop to full maturity as the most important features. Many of these are oaks grown from acorns gathered in Windsor Great Park. One of the special insects of the gill that breeds in the wet, dead wood that is abundant in the gill is the cranefly Lipsothrix nervosa. This is not only rare and declining in Britain, it is one of the country's rather few endemic species that are found nowhere else in the world.
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