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Highnam Wood is a nature reserve located in
RSPB web site
Highnam Wood
on the VisitWoods website
Highnam Wood is a nature reserve located in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean.
The county town is the city of Gl ...
and established by the RSPB
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a Charitable_organization#United_Kingdom, charitable organisation registered in Charity Commission for England and Wales, England and Wales and in Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, ...
to protect bird species in the region. A two-kilometre nature trail
An educational trail (or sometimes educational path), nature trail or nature walk is a specially developed hiking trail or footpath that runs through the countryside, along which there are marked stations or stops next to points of natural, techno ...
passes through the park, giving tourists a view of Britain's rarest breeding woodpecker
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. ...
species, the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
The lesser spotted woodpecker (''Dryobates minor'') is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae. It was formerly assigned to the genus ''Dendrocopos'' (sometimes incorrectly spelt as ''Dendrocopus''). Some taxonomic authorities continue to list ...
. Marsh Tit, Nightingale, Song Thrush, and Spotted Flycatchers also frequent the park.
Forest Management
The RSPB periodically removes non-native species from the park to allow native species to grow and flourish. The association also thins out standard trees, while maintaining scrub and coppice species as habitats for Nightingales. Regularly, the RSPB rotavates the land to provide disturbed ground for Upright Spurge. They eventually hope to have 2,000 of the rare flowers living in the park. 20 hectares of the forest are left with minimal intervention by the society. Dead and decaying timber are also left untouched on the forest floor for insects.Opening of the reserve
The reserve is open to pedestrians at all times, and the car park is open through the spring and summer at weekends 10am - 4pmExternal links
RSPB web site
Highnam Wood
on the VisitWoods website
References
Nature reserves in Gloucestershire {{Gloucestershire-geo-stub