Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust
Dawberry Fields Reptile Project
We are fundraising to deliver a habitat creation project at Dawberry Fields Park, Brandwood End, South Birmingham to help slow worms and common lizards to thrive.
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Think of an urban park. What wildlife do you expect to see? Ducks on a pond, squirrels running up a tree, maybe a fox disappearing into a hedge. But it might surprise you to know that Dawberry Fields in Brandwood End, Birmingham is home to two of our native reptile species - the slow worm and common lizard!
We are working in partnership with the Naturally Birmingham Future Parks Accelerator Programme and the local community to fundraise for a project to create habitats for these reptiles to thrive. We will install banks and stones to provide safe places for these protected species to bask and hibernate as well as creating homes for a range of other wildlife by creating areas of wildflowers.
I am incredibly excited to see how much money we can raise in Dawberry Fields. Through our work, we have seen more people and families use the park, and I am sure this project to create a habitat for slow worms and common lizard will encourage even more people to do so. Lockdown and Covid 19 has shown us how important parks are to us, so lets use this opportunity to show parks how much we care about them too. People need parks and parks need people. Thank you for all your support.
Hamira Sultan, Consultant in Public Health and Future Parks Accelerator Director
Did you know that common lizards and slow worms don't lay eggs like most reptiles - they actually give birth to live babies!
Want to find out more about these fascinating reptiles? Click here to read about slow worm and click here to read about common lizard .
For more information on the Naturally Birmingham Future Parks Accelerator Programme click here
If you would like to join the Dawberry Fields mailing list please email Daniel.Lloyd@birmingham.gov.uk and you can follow Dawberry Fields on Twitter
Mom and I moved to Kings Heath, and what a lovely surprise it was to find that just over the fence lies a hidden gem... We have an Oak Tree full of life, blackberries, and a honeysuckle hedge which peeps over, and shares its heady scent in the summer evenings, when were out there watching the bats fly over...
Kim a friend of Dawberry Fields