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Pulborough AS & The Environment
Pulborough Angling Society actively encourages wildlife at it's fisheries, as part of the development works at Goose Green, we will be installing a dipping pond alongside the car park, it is hoped that over time and with a little help from us, that all manner of native amphibians, insects and larvae will make the pond home, the pond will be available to local schools for environmental studies once it has been fully established. Also as part of the development plans at Goose Green, we have and will continue to plant all manner of native plants & trees to encourage the birds and animals to the area, in fact during the development of the fishery many people commented on the number of trees that were cleared, what they were probably not aware of is the fact for every tree removed, (and 90% of it was scrub willow), we intend to plant at least four trees to replace it, these species include Birch, Oak, Beech, Alder, Crab Apple, Hazel, Ash, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut & Sycamore, to this end we have established our own tree nursery and many members have all manner of saplings and native flora in pots at home ready to be returned to the fishery in due course, we have already planted literary hundreds if not thousands of Foxgloves, Cowslips, Primroses, Irises, Lilies, Reeds & Rushes over the entire complex and during the Spring, Summer & Autumn months the fishery is a riot of colour and it teems with wildlife throughout the year. The Sussex Botanical Recording Society made a visit to Goose Green in August 2007, and recorded 134 different species of trees & plants at the fishery, a full listing of the many different species is available for download in PDF format here. The ongoing works at Goose Green, do not seem to have affected the wildlife much at all, in fact we firmly believe the number of species at the fishery has now increased, at the last count we have observed a multitude of different species of birds and animals at the fishery, this number excludes insects of which which there are more species than we can count, some of the species of birds and animals witnessed at Goose Green are:
The number of species at the complex is in fact quite staggering, we also witness a large number of bats in the warm summer evenings and to sit and watch these creatures swoop at low level over the Lakes as the sun goes down is quite amazing. We have also established safe areas for nesting birds, these being the islands on the ponds, which in 2007 saw Geese, Duck's and Moorhen's utilising the heavily planted islands to raise their young, other areas have been established around Lake 2 and the newly dug Deep Lake, in addition we have left certain areas around the fishery deliberately wild, these include our boundary with the wood yard and the area between New Pond and the car park, we also decided not to clear the hedge alongside Peacocks Lane, electing to let this area grow wild with Bramble & Dog Rose to encourage small mammals & birds to utilise this habitat.
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