Despite the county wide devastation following the storm that hit Sussex last week, Sussex Wildlife Trust report an unexpected wildlife benefit. Steve Tillman, Reserve Manager at Woods Mill Nature Reserve, near Henfield said: ‘The high rainfall over the weekend has helped to refill the pond after it was drained last year to allow essential restoration work. This work was vital to improve the quality of this important wildlife habitat. However, many of our regular visitors were disappointed to find the water levels so low and I am delighted to be able to encourage them to come back and take a look now the water has returned.’ During the restoration work, Steve organised the removal of thousands of non-native fish from the pond to create a better habitat for wetland wildlife such as dragonflies, toads, frogs and aquatic plants. He is pleased to report that common darter dragonflies have already been seen laying their eggs.
