Flora and Fauna
The woodland on the northwestern corner of Hallington Reservoir East is mostly Scots pine and larch with beech, willow, and sycamore whilst marginal plants include the very rare and scarce small-fruited yellow sedge which occurs near the dam between both two reservoirs.
The reservoirs form an important wintering area for wildfowl, including wigeon, teal, and mallard whilst autumn waders include dunlin, black-headed, and common gulls.
There are sightings of red squirrel here as well as otters, badgers, and bats and recent surveys have also identified a healthy population of native white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes within the aqueduct that flows into the reservoirs.
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