There are a lot of hedgehog friendly initiatives happening at the Haxby Road Spots Centre. Simon from the Grounds team has kindly shown me around to share the initiatives that has been taken.

There are currently 4 hedgehog houses located across the Haxby Road Sports Centre with log piles left for hedgehogs, invertebrates and mammals in various location at the site. We are hoping to do some hedgehog surveys in the coming months so it will be interesting to find out if these houses are being used.

There are areas where nature is left to grow to encourage greater biodiversity.

The Haxby Road site is also home to our YSJ community allotment, wildlife pond, bee hive and various bird boxes too (birdboxes include tailor-made boxes for Tawny owls, woodpeckers, small birds like blue tits and more).

We have also planted mixed native hedge at the site, including Hawthorn, Blackthorn and Rosa.

It is lovely to see so many wildlife habitat initiatives that are happening at Haxby Road Sports Centre site.