Englemere Pond
# Englemere Pond

Englemere Pond is a 26.1-hectare (64-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern outskirts of North Ascot in Berkshire. The site is also a Local Nature Reserve. It is owned by the Crown Estate and managed by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.

## Geography

The nature reserve is situated between Martins Heron railway station and Ascot railway station. It features a shallow acidic lake and marsh land.

## History

The land for most of its recorded history has been part of a great Royal Hunting Forest that surrounded Windsor Castle.

In 1990 the site was declared as a local nature reserve by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.

In August 2016 an unexploded old military shell was discovered in Englemere Pond and blown up in a controlled explosion by the police.

## Fauna

The fauna of the reserve include the following:

### Birds

* Little grebe
* Water rail
* Great spotted woodpecker
* Coal tit
* Long-tailed tit
* Goldcrest
* Nuthatch
* Treecreeper
* Jay
* Common reed bunting
* Common chiffchaff
* Eurasian blackcap
* Garden warbler
* Sedge warbler
* Eurasian reed warbler
* Spotted flycatcher
* Tawny owl
* Lesser redpoll
* Gadwall
* Northern shoveler
* Eurasian teal
* Sand martin
* Swallow

### Invertebrates

* Hairy dragonfly
* Common hawker
* Golden-ringed dragonfly
* Libellula depressa
* Keeled skimmer
* Beautiful demoiselle
* Banded demoiselle
* Lestes sponsa
* Erythromma najas
* Large red damselfly
* Blue-tailed damselfly
* Enallagma cyathigerum
* Azure damselfly
* Southern Hawker
* Brown hawker
* Migrant Hawker
* Emperor dragonfly
* Downy emerald
* Brilliant emerald
* Black-tailed skimmer
* Four-spotted chaser
* Sympetrum danae
* Ruddy darter
* Common darter

### Reptiles, amphibians and other vertebrates

* Grass snake
* Common toad
* Palmate newt
* Adders

## Flora

The flora of the reserve include the following:

### Trees

* Oak
* Scots pine
* Hornbeam
* Rowan
* Silver birch
* Willow
* Cherry
* Alder

### Other

* Drosera rotundifolia
* Calluna
* Erica cinerea
* Erica tetralix
* Reed
