Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve is a Local Nature Reserve on the edge of the hamlet of Padworth Common, between Reading and Newbury in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and managed by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Geography and site The site is served by a network of paths that run through a variety of habitats, including heathland, woodland, ponds and wet alder-lined gullies.Padworth Common - Nature Reserve in Thatcham, West Berkshire - South East England The woodland is based in the north of the site, with heathland in the south.
History
Padworth Common was given its nature reserve status in 2005 by Newbury District Council.
In 2013 the management of the nature reserve was transferred from West Berkshire Council to the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.Wildlife trust set to run West Berkshire nature reserves - Get Reading
Fauna
The site has the following fauna:Padworth and Burghfield Commons
Reptiles and amphibians
Vipera berus Grass snake Anguis fragilis Common frog Common toad Palmate newt Smooth newt
Invertebrates
Grayling Cicindela campestris Bog bush-cricket Golden-ringed dragonfly Downy emerald Common hawker Purple hairstreak Limenitis camilla
Birds
European nightjar Dartford warbler Tree pipit European stonechat Woodlark European green woodpecker Eurasian siskin Goldcrest Little grebe Moorhen Common buzzard Woodcock Tawny owl Little owl Eurasian treecreeper Eurasian nuthatch Hobby Willow warbler Garden warbler Common whitethroat Common chiffchaff Eurasian blackcap Common firecrest Spotted flycatcher Redwing Fieldfare Lesser redpoll
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