Hilfield Park Reservoir

Hilfield Park Reservoir is a 74.7 Local Nature Reserve (LNR) between Bushey and Elstree in Hertfordshire. It is owned by Affinity Water and managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust (LMWT). It is the oldest LNR in Hertfordshire, declared in 1969.^[1]^[2]^[3]

This large reservoir has a wide range of bird species. It is of national importance for pochards, tufted ducks and common tern, and it is also significant for mallards, shovellers and teal. The margins have marshy areas with many breeding birds and marsh plants, such as reedmace and reed canarygrass.^[3]^[4] In 2011 an eastern crowned warbler was caught and ringed, only the second to be found in Britain.

The site is kept locked and access is restricted to HMWT members.^[1]

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References

1 2 "Hilfield Park Reservoir". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
↑ "Map of Hilfield Park Reservoir". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
1 2 "Hilfield Park Reservoir". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
↑ "Hilfield Park Reservoir Wildlife Report 2013" (PDF). Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust and Affinity Water. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

Local Nature Reserves in Hertfordshire

Broxbourne	Cheshunt Park Top Field and Cozens Grove

Dacorum	Howe Grove Wood Shrubhill Common

East Hertfordshire	Waterford Heath

Hertsmere	Fisher's Field Furzefield Wood and Lower Halfpenny Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ivel Springs Norton Common Oughtonhead Common Purwell Meadows Therfield Heath Weston Hills

St Albans	Batford Springs Colney Heath Marshalls Heath Watercress Wildlife Site Wheathampstead The Wick

Three Rivers	Chorleywood Common Chorleywood House Estate Croxley Common Moor Oxhey Woods Prestwick Road Meadows Rickmansworth Aquadrome Stockers Lake The Withey Beds

Watford	Albans Wood Cassiobury Park Garston Park Harebreaks Wood The Lairage Land

Welwyn Hatfield	The Commons Danesbury Park Howe Dell Mardley Heath Northaw Great Wood Country Park Oxleys Wood Sherrardspark Wood Singlers Marsh Stanborough Reedmarsh

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs

East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead

Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Barkway Chalk Pit Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Hill End Pit Oughtonhead Pryor's Wood Purwell Ninesprings

St Albans	Broad Colney Lakes

Stevenage	Ridlins Mire

Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadow Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake

Watford	Cassiobury Park

Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood

Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade

Coordinates: 51°38′57″N 0°19′39″W / 51.6491°N 0.3276°W / 51.6491; -0.3276

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