But other, other, less common plants also grow in the sandy, acidic soil and help hid a wide range of small animals. The heath is home to unusually high numbers of butterflies and moths of many kinds. Little red-bellied snakes search the ground for earth worms and slugs to eat. Tiger beetles prowl the vegetation for unwary insects, as do varieties of spiders and wasps that biologists are now describing for the first time. The birds of prey are easier to see.
Harriers dip and float over the grassland in search the ground for earthworms and slugs to eat.
Tiger beetles prowl the vegetation for unwary insects, as do varieties of spiders and wasps that biologists are only now describing for the first time. The birds of prey are easier to see. Harriers dip and float over the grassland in search of mice. Osprey nest on special platforms and snatch fish from the ponds to fee their young. An occasional shore-eared owl glides across the grassland at dusk.