Englemere Pond

Englemere Pond is a 26.1 ha biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern outskirts of North Ascot in Berkshire. The site is also a Local Nature Reserve. It is owned by the Crown Estate and managed by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.

Geography
The nature reserve is situated between Martins Heron railway station and Ascot railway station. It features a shallow acidic lake and marsh land.

History
The land for most of its recorded history has been part of a great Royal Hunting Forest that surrounded Windsor Castle.

In 1990 the site was declared as a local nature reserve by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.

In August 2016 an unexploded old military shell was discovered in Englemere Pond and blown up in a controlled explosion by the police.

Fauna
The fauna of the reserve include the following:

Birds
• Little grebe

• Water rail

• Great spotted woodpecker

• Coal tit

• Long-tailed tit

• Goldcrest

• Nuthatch

• Treecreeper

• Jay

• Common reed bunting

• Common chiffchaff

• Eurasian blackcap

• Garden warbler

• Sedge warbler

• Eurasian reed warbler

• Spotted flycatcher

• Tawny owl

• Lesser redpoll

• Gadwall

• Northern shoveler

• Eurasian teal

• Sand martin

• Swallow

Invertebrates
• Hairy dragonfly

• Common hawker

• Golden-ringed dragonfly

• Libellula depressa

• Keeled skimmer

• Beautiful demoiselle

• Banded demoiselle

• Lestes sponsa

• Erythromma najas

• Large red damselfly

• Blue-tailed damselfly

• Enallagma cyathigerum

• Azure damselfly

• Southern Hawker

• Brown hawker

• Migrant Hawker

• Emperor dragonfly

• Downy emerald

• Brilliant emerald

• Black-tailed skimmer

• Four-spotted chaser

• Sympetrum danae

• Ruddy darter

• Common darter

Reptiles, amphibians and other vertebrates

 * Grass snake
 * Common toad
 * Palmate newt
 * Adders

Flora
The flora of the reserve include the following:

Trees

 * Oak
 * Scots pine
 * Hornbeam
 * Rowan
 * Silver birch
 * Willow
 * Cherry
 * Alder

Other

 * Drosera rotundifolia
 * Calluna
 * Erica cinerea
 * Erica tetralix
 * Reed