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Food - Seven Acres - Wildlife

 

Wild Foods

At Seven Acres there were many wild foods which woodlanders would have picked to cook, then eat. We found: Apple orchard, nettles which could be boiled to make nettle tea, nettle soup and nettle wine. Blackberries, wild garlic, dandelion, hawthorn berries were used to make Jelly and Wild raspberries.

 

Sweet Cicely

Sweet Cicely is a plant that grows at Seven Acres this plant was used as a mouth freshener. If you roll the leaves between your fingers it smells lik aniseed. The plant may also have been used in medicine.

We saw bluebells, red campion, horse chestnut, sycamore trees, silver birch had evidence that deer rubbed their antlers on young trees.

 

Gorse

Good for wildlife likes to grow on soil where there is coal and iron deposits. This is evidence that there was mining at some point.

 

The Pond

In it we saw heron

 

The Birds

Birds Swifts comming from Africa but breed here.

Deers

Deers are small mammals and loving towards people but if a male deer sees you go into their house, they can get aggressive towards you.

 

Wildlife file

There are many different species of wildlife live and breed at Seven Acres.

Butterflies – Need sun to heat the blood so they can fly. These are some of the butterflies;
Comma – February/March to early autumn, England and Wales;
Damselflies – Female damselflies do not usually have bright colours of males are often black brown or yellow.
Frogs – frogs are amphibian (animals in water) and the most threatened they only survive in some areas thanks to garden ponds.

 

Pond Dipping

Pond Dipping – Mayfly nymph – fishermen use flies that mimic them. The water was very clean and the bugs living in the water needed clean water to breed in. Fish would be caught in Bradshaw Brook and cooked for food.