Recently, Pembroke 21C Community Interest Company hosted a biodiversity recording day at their Greenhill Farm site on the Angle Peninsula. Biological recorders from Pembrokeshire were invited by West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre (WWBIC) and these county recorders, as they are known, brought their specialist expertise in birds, moths, mammals and higher plants together with a wealth of more general biological knowledge. Greenhill Farm is a disused dairy farm owned by RWE npower at Pembroke Power Station. The site includes a number of different habitats, including grassland, mature broadleaf woodland, pond, hedgerows, scrub and reed bed. Pembroke 21C Community Interest Company are working to bring the site back into active management, including developing it for amenity woodland, hay meadows, grazing, bee hives and an orchard. The full list of species found on the recording day is currently being compiled, but finds include the Spectacled Nettle Moth, which looks as though it is wearing glasses and Butcher's Broom, a stiff, spiky plant which used to be used by butchers to keep their cutting boards clean. They were also lucky enough to see tawny owlets. "It was great to have so many experts so keen to see what species we have at our site. I look forward to seeing the records of what was found." said Jennifer Care, Pembroke 21C Community Interest Company project manager. Colin Russell, manager at WWBIC, added: "Despite the rain on the day, it was really good to be recording at a new site in the county. We are always on the look-out for private land which has been under-recorded and this will be a benchmark against which Pembroke 21C can gauge the enhancement in biodiversity as the project develops." The Greenhill Farm project is registered with Environment Wales and a new heritage orchard is being planted there with funding from the People's Postcode Trust and players of the People's Postcode Lottery. If you or your group are interested in getting involved with the Greenhill Farm or would like to find out more about this project, please contact the project manager on [email protected]">[email protected], pop into Foundry House Community Centre, Pembroke, or call 01646 680090.






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