Sole Common Pond is a nature reserve south-west of Boxford in Berkshire in

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. It is managed by the

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. It consists of a Sphagnum fringed pond, heath, wet woodland and a wildflower meadow.

Fauna

The site has the following fauna:

Invertebrates

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Sympetrum danae ''Sympetrum danae'', the black darter or black meadowhawk is a dragonfly found in northern Europe, Asia, and North America. At about long, it is Britain's smallest resident dragonfly. It is a very active late summer insect typical of heathland ...

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Conocephalus fuscus ''Conocephalus fuscus'', the long-winged conehead, is a member of the family Tettigoniidae, the bush-crickets and is distributed through much of Europe and temperate Asia. This bush-cricket is native to the British Isles where it may confused wit ...

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Southern hawker The southern hawker or blue hawker (''Aeshna cyanea'') is a species of hawker dragonfly. Distribution The species is one of the most common and most widespread dragonflies in Europe. The total range is West Palearctic and covers a large part of ...

Common darter The common darter (''Sympetrum striolatum'') is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae native to Eurasia. It is one of the most common dragonflies in Europe, occurring in a wide variety of water bodies, though with a preference for breeding in ...

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Lestes sponsa ''Lestes sponsa'', is a damselfly, with a wide Palaearctic distribution. It is known commonly as the emerald damselfly or common spreadwing. Both males and females have a metallic green colour and when resting its wings are usually half opened. ...

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Four-spotted chaser ''Libellula quadrimaculata'', known in Europe as the four-spotted chaser and in North America as the four-spotted skimmer, is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae found widely throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. The adult stage is f ...

Large red damselfly The large red damselfly (''Pyrrhosoma nymphula'') is a species of damselflies belonging to the family Coenagrionidae. It is native to the western Palearctic. Distribution This species is a mainly European damselfly, with some populations in Nort ...

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Birds

Eurasian woodcock The Eurasian woodcock (''Scolopax rusticola'') is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its woodland habitat, with reddish-brown upperparts and buff-coloured underparts. Its eyes ...

Wood warbler The wood warbler (''Phylloscopus sibilatrix'') is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asian Russia in the southern Ural Mountains. This warbler is strong ...

Flora

The site has the following flora:

Trees

Birch A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 30 ...

Plants

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Menyanthes trifoliata ''Menyanthes'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Menyanthaceae containing the single species ''Menyanthes trifoliata''. The North American form is often referred to as ''M. trifoliata'' var. ''minor'' Michx. It is known ...

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Polypodium vulgare ''Polypodium vulgare'', the common polypody, is an evergreen fern of the family Polypodiaceae. ''Polypodium vulgare'' is an allotetraploid species, believed to have arisen by chromosome doubling of a sterile diploid hybrid between two ferns which ...

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Erica tetralix ''Erica tetralix'', the cross-leaved heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to western Europe, from southern Portugal to central Norway, as well as a number of boggy regions further from the coast in Central Europe ...

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Calluna vulgaris ''Calluna vulgaris'', common heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the genus ''Calluna'' in the flowering plant family Ericaceae. It is a low-growing evergreen shrub growing to tall, or rarely to and taller, and is found wid ...

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Drosera rotundifolia ''Drosera rotundifolia'', the round-leaved sundew, roundleaf sundew, or common sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens. One of the most widespread sundew species, it has a circumboreal distribut ...

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Hypericum perforatum ''Hypericum perforatum'', known as St. John's wort, is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae and the type species of the genus ''Hypericum''. Possibly a hybrid between '' H. maculatum'' and '' H. attenuatum'', the species can be found a ...

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Sphagnum magellanicum ''Sphagnum magellanicum'', commonly called Magellanic bogmoss, Magellan's sphagnum, Magellan's peatmoss or midway peat moss, is a widespread species of moss found in wet boreal forest in the far south and southwest of South America, North America ...

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Sphagnum capillifolium ''Sphagnum capillifolium'', the red bogmoss, northern peat moss, acute-leaved bog-moss, or small red peat moss, is a species of peat moss ''Sphagnum'' is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum mo ...

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Sphagnum inundatum ''Sphagnum inundatum'' is a species of moss belonging to the family Sphagnaceae. It has cosmopolitan distribution. References inundatum {{moss-stub ...

Fungi

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Cantharellus cibarius ''Cantharellus cibarius'' (Latin: ''cantharellus'', "chanterelle"; ''cibarius'', "culinary") is a species of golden chanterelle mushroom in the genus ''Cantharellus''. It is also known as girolle (or ''girole''). It grows in Europe from Scandi ...

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Caloboletus calopus ''Caloboletus calopus'', common name, commonly known as the bitter beech bolete or scarlet-stemmed bolete, is a fungus of the Boletaceae, bolete family, found in Asia, Northern Europe and North America. Appearing in coniferous forest, conifero ...

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Russula nobilis Formerly ''Russula mairei'' (Singer), and commonly known as the beechwood sickener, the now re-classified fungus ''Russula nobilis'' (Velen.) is a basidiomycete mushroom of the genus ''Russula''. This group of mushrooms are noted for their brit ...

References

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