GC4E9G2 Arnhall Nature Reserve (Traditional Cache) in Northern Scotland, United Kingdom created by Bexen

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Hidden : 6/15/2013

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Arnhall Moss Local Nature Reserve lies on the edge of Westhill and Elrick.

As one of the few remaining raised bogs in lowland Aberdeenshire the reserve is indeed a special place.

It was designated a Local Nature Reserve in 1991 because of it’s value as a wildlife habitat.

Raised bogs are formed over hundreds of years. They generally start out as ponds of lochans where gradually rotten plant material begins to accumulate in the waterlogged hollows. This vegetation develops into a layer of water holding peat, forming slowly into a dome shape and creating a raised bog. Eventually the dome becomes isolated from the ground water and the plants growing on the bog become adapted to the surroundings and support special communities of insects, birds and animals.

Over the past years birch trees have invaded Arnhall Moss and begun to dry out the area. The new habitat of birch woodland supports a different range of insects and birds making the reserve a spectacular place to visit with much wildlife to see. Common woodland and wetland birds such as wren, great tit, blue tit, coal tit, redpoll, mallard and moorhen are abundant and mammals such as pipistrelle bats, roe deer, foxes and stoats, either live on or use the site.

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