THEME: The Middle and Heifer Banks
These two fields are another part of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) here at Greenheyes. The first and perhaps the most noticeable feature of these fields is that they are relatively steep forming part of the river Dane's valley sides. In the hedgerow at the bottom of the banks we find that there is a small, shallow and slow flowing stream. In past times it was probably a drainage ditch which has been slowly filled with sediment.
The picture to the right was taken in the same spot about 2 weeks after those above. The egg's have now hatched and the young and as yet limbless frogs (Tadpoles) can be swimming around as a black mass below the surface of the water. Of the hundreds that you can see here, only a few will survive to become adult frogs
The toad can be distingushed from the frog by the rough warty texture of its skin.
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