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There have been many Bat surveys undertaken at Croft Castle over the years, a quite extensive one in 2016 where the Fishpool Valley was noted as having a consistently higher Bat activity than any other of the areas at Croft Castle that were surveyed at the time; this naturally highlighted…
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There has been a reptile sanctuary within the parkland for many years, but of late cattle that were in the area brought the fencing down and the refuge area became trampled. We are now working on another area where under the guidance of Nigel Hand we are hoping to encourage…
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Update on the Crayfish. In Sweden a crayfish party is a traditional summertime eating and drinking celebration. In the 1960’s stocks of crayfish throughout Europe were affected by a crayfish plague. In the 1970’s signal crayfish were introduced from North America to the UK as a commercial initiative for export…
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That was the question. We don’t think so but is it likely we would have seen them as we go crashing around with chainsaws & strimmers. Why the interest? It’s all to do with the Fishpool Valley project, the picturesque landscape movement and the plans to restore the valley to…
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The Croft Castle Parkland supports a variety of both common and rare bat species. We have in past summers held ‘bat hunts’ mainly for children to come and make use of hand held bat detectors, like the one on the right below, to track the bats that frequent the meadow in the…
