This is list of species of flora and fauna found in Sentry Hill. It was composed by The Ballymena ECOS centre.
PLANT SPECIES:
Annual Meadowgrass, Ash
Beech, Birch, Blackthorn , Bramble, Broad-leaved Dock, Broad-leaved Willowherb, Buddlia , Bush Vetch , Butterbur
Chickweed, Cleavers, Cocksfoot, Coltsfoot, Common Alder, Common Bent Grass,
Common Cats Ear, Common Field Speedwell, Common Mouse Ear, Common Ragwort,
Common Sorrel, Couch Grass, Cow Parsley, Crab Apple, Creeping Bent Grass,
Creeping Buttercup, Creeping Soft Grass, Creeping Thistle, Curled Dock,
Dandelion, Dog Rose,
Elder,
False Oat-grass,
Garlic Mustard, Greater Plantain, Greater Stitchwort, Ground Elder, Ground Ivy,
Groundsel,
Hawthorn, Hazel, Hedge Binweed, Hedge Mustard, Hedge Woundwort, Hogweed, Holly,
Ivy,
Knotgrass,
Lesser Celandine, Lords-and-Ladies,
Male Fern, Maple, Marsh Bed Straw, Meadow Buttercup, Meadow Foxtail, Meadowsweet,
Montbretia,
Nipplewort,
Pendunculate Oak, Perrennial Rye Grass, Pineapple weed, Prickly Sow Thistle,
Primrose, Privet, Procumbent Pearlwort,
Ramsons, Red Champion, Red Clover, Red Deadnettle, Red Fescue , Redshank,
Ribwort Plantain, Rowan,
Self-heal, Shepards Purse, Slender Speedwell, Small Leaved Lime, Smooth Hawks Beard
Soft Rush, Spear Thistle, Stingin Nettle, Sweet Vernal Grass, Sycamore,
Timothy Grass,
White Clover, WoodAvens, Wood Sorrel, Wood Ruff,
Yorkshire Fog
BUTTERFLY SPECIES:
Ringlet,
Meadow Brown,
Speckled Wood, Small Tortoiseshell, Small White
Green-veined White, Peacock Painted Lady
BIRD SPECIES:
Blackbird, Blackcap, Blue Tit
Chaffinch, Coal Tit, Collarded Dove
Dunnock
Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Magpie, Mistle Thrush
Robin
Song Thrush, Starling, Swallow
Willow Warbler, Wood Pigeon, Wren
Long Tailed Tit
Redpoll
Bulfinch
Siskin
Crow
Hooded Crow
Rocks
Sparrow Hawk
Waxwing
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Thursday, 7 May 2009
OBJECTIVES
To promote the protection of Sentry Hill Park as an open green space.
To promote and protect the environmental value of its flora and fauna.
To educate the community in valuing, protecting, and conserving this green space.
To improve the area, in its present context, as a semi wild, lightly managed – albeit a rather neglected space currently – and return it to its former glory.
To foster community involvement in its care and maintenance:
_ Planting more trees
Installing bat and bird boxes
Planting wild flower meadows
Exploring its tremendous potential to become a possible extension of the Ecos project and part of its educational programmes.
Encourage the Ballymena Borough Council to see the Park as an asset, with all its potential as a life enhancing green entity, not just a way out of current financial problems.
WHAT WE CAN DO
Add your name in support to “Keep Sentry Hill Park Green” by emailing :
keepsentryhillgreen@gmail.com
We will keep you up to date with all developments.
“For the sake of protecting Sentry Hill Park as an open green space, with all it’s flora, fauna and wildlife open to all, I wish to express my support for the “Keep Sentry Hill Park Green” campaign in encouraging the Ballymena Borough Council and powers-that-be to see this Park as an asset for all local people, with its potential as a life enhancing green space, not just a way out of financial problems.”
SENTRY HILL PARK
SENTRY HILL PARK
Located between the Duory Road and the Old Ballymoney Road, Ballymena, Sentry Hill Park is the only space in town that boasts a mini-ecosystem of its own and provides an oasis of peace and calm for many of us looking to get away from the frenetic space of life.
A semi-wild area with a traffic free zone rarely found these days in a the Ballymena area, Sentry Hill has diverse flora, fauna and wildlife.
Its many access points makes the Park easily available to any local residents looking for a quiet place to contemplate, a grace space to exercise and enjoy fresh air – especially with the presence of the Sports Hall, or to walk their pets and catch up with old friends.
Sentry Hill is a much needed green space, leading ultimately to the People’s Park, the town’s other important park facility, but with an entirely different function. There is a need to keep and maintain both essential features of the town.
This important green space is now under threat. There has been a proposal to build either an unnecessary school or housing units in the Park.
This is a wake-up call to every one of us who values green spaces and the joys the Park has brought us over the years.
We can no longer take for granted the future of Sentry Hill Park as an unspoiled open space. It is up to all of us who have enjoyed – and who still do or wish to enjoy - its many benefits to speak up in its defence.
KEEP SENTRY HILL PARK GREEN CAMPAIGN
Our aim is to save Sentry Hill Park from the threat of change by developers. The council, and the powers-that-be, have to reappraise their ideas of the importance of this green space. Research has repeatedly shown that open green spaces are essential for the well being of the population. They are a necessity – not a commodity to be discarded or abused for short term needs or gains, and definitely not a luxury or an optional extra. The Government’s policy is to enhance and improve such areas, not demolish them.
Located between the Duory Road and the Old Ballymoney Road, Ballymena, Sentry Hill Park is the only space in town that boasts a mini-ecosystem of its own and provides an oasis of peace and calm for many of us looking to get away from the frenetic space of life.
A semi-wild area with a traffic free zone rarely found these days in a the Ballymena area, Sentry Hill has diverse flora, fauna and wildlife.
Its many access points makes the Park easily available to any local residents looking for a quiet place to contemplate, a grace space to exercise and enjoy fresh air – especially with the presence of the Sports Hall, or to walk their pets and catch up with old friends.
Sentry Hill is a much needed green space, leading ultimately to the People’s Park, the town’s other important park facility, but with an entirely different function. There is a need to keep and maintain both essential features of the town.
This important green space is now under threat. There has been a proposal to build either an unnecessary school or housing units in the Park.
This is a wake-up call to every one of us who values green spaces and the joys the Park has brought us over the years.
We can no longer take for granted the future of Sentry Hill Park as an unspoiled open space. It is up to all of us who have enjoyed – and who still do or wish to enjoy - its many benefits to speak up in its defence.
KEEP SENTRY HILL PARK GREEN CAMPAIGN
Our aim is to save Sentry Hill Park from the threat of change by developers. The council, and the powers-that-be, have to reappraise their ideas of the importance of this green space. Research has repeatedly shown that open green spaces are essential for the well being of the population. They are a necessity – not a commodity to be discarded or abused for short term needs or gains, and definitely not a luxury or an optional extra. The Government’s policy is to enhance and improve such areas, not demolish them.
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