Wildlife

Pelaw wood has a wide variety of wildlife and the Friends of Pelaw Wood strive not only to maintain ecological diversity but by careful management of habitats increase the range of species in this area.

IMGP1241To establish a preliminary measure of the variety of species found in Pelaw Wood an ecological survey was undertaken in 2004. For the purposes of this survey Pelaw Wood was divided into these nine ‘compartments’, as shown on the map below.

D Pelaw Wood Beck Dene

G The Woodfield – glades on bank top

U Upper Wood between the glades and the middle path

L Lower River Bank Wood between the terraced middle path and the riverside

Common frog in the upper glade

Common frog in the upper glade

R Rabbit Banks

H Old Hockey Field

E Elm Bank between the old hockey field and the Batts

B The Batts – the bottom field below Old Durham Gardens

W  Land next to Laurel Avenue School – not surveyed

 

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