Baston Fen is a long tract of permanent pasture, which is flooded in winter and attracts large numbers of wildfowl. Near the entrance is an area of willow carr, which provides a range of nesting sites for birds. In winter the carr is flooded. In summer a footpath leads through the carr into a drier wooded area which once contained a hamlet of eight cottages and a windmill, but now its willows, osiers and alders provide additional shelter and nesting sites for birds, such as tits, finches and warblers.
Location: Counter Drain Drove, Baston, Lincolnshire, Grid Ref: TF145 176
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Willow Tree Fen
Willow Tree Fen has been transformed from arable land growing beans and cereal to more traditional fenland landscape of shallow meres, seasonally flooded pastures, hay meadows and reedbeds.
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