Flora and Fauna
Together Hartsholme Country Park and Swanholme Lakes Local Nature Reserve are home to: 285 flowering plants; 28 gymnosperms; 12 ferns; 4 horsetails; 103 species of bird (including 48 breeding species); 4 amphibians; 4 reptiles; 16 mammals; 25 butterflies; 14 dragonflies/damselflies (including 10 breeding); and over 450 fungi.
Hartsholme Country Park is an area of over forty hectares containing a range of habitats including:
- Semi improved acid grassland
- Broadleaved plantation woodland
- Standing open water
- Amenity grassland
These habitats in turn support many species including nationally rare and endangered ones such as:
- Song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
- Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
- Pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus)
Some of the species found here are particularly important as they are considered rare or uncommon within an urban environment and within the Lincoln area:
- Red-eyed damselfly (Erythromma najas)
- Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola)
- Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
You can learn more about the species found in Hartsholme Country Park, and it’s neighbour Swanholme Lakes Local Nature Reserve, at the Visitor Centre.