Lattersey Field is an 11.9 hectare
Local Nature Reserve in
Whittlesey
Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is east of Peterborough. The population of the parish was 16,058 at the 2011 Census.
History and architecture
W ...
in
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the ...
. It is owned by
Fenland District Council Fenland may mean:
* Fenland, or the Fens, an area of low-lying land in eastern England
** Fenland District, a local authority district in Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, forming part of the Fens
** Fenland Airfield, an airfield near Spalding, ...
and managed by the
.
This former clay brick quarry has pits which have filled with water, and it has diverse habitats of grassland, woodland, scrub, pools, marshes and reedbeds. Mammals includes
water voles,
water shrews, and there are birds such as
sedge warblers
The sedge warbler (''Acrocephalus schoenobaenus'') is an Old World warbler in the genus '' Acrocephalus''. It is a medium-sized warbler with a brown, streaked back and wings and a distinct pale supercilium. Sedge warblers are migratory, crossin ...
,
tawny owls,
woodcocks
The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus ''Scolopax''. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name ...
,
great spotted woodpeckers and
reed buntings.
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There is access from New Road, which bisects the site.
]
References
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Local Nature Reserves in Cambridgeshire
Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire reserves