Wildlife Survey of PIGEONHOUSE STREAM AND THE MALAGO May / August 2010 For South Bristol Riverscapes Partnership Phil Quinn (Ecology and land use) MIEEM Flat 4, 15 Osborne Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 2HB. Tel. 0117 9747012; mob. 0796 2062917; email:
[email protected] Wildlife Survey of Pigeonhouse Stream and the Malago (2010) CONTENTS Page 1. Summary 3-4 2. Remit 5 3. Site description 5-6 4. Methodology 7-8 5. Caveat 8 6. Results 8-40 6.1 The Malago 8-25 6.1.1 Dundry Slopes 9-13 M1 East of Strawberry Lane 9 M2 West of Strawberry Lane 10 M3 Ditch in a hedge 10 M4: A Malago is Born 10-11 M5: Teenage Malago 11-12 M6: Pretender to the Throne 12 M7: Claypiece Road isolate 12 6.1.2 Hengrove Plain and Bedminster 14-25 M8: The Stream Invisible 14 M9: Suburban Streamside 14-15 M10: Malago Valley SNCI 15-16 M10a Small tributary ditch 17 M11: A Whimper of a Watercourse 17-18 M12: Up the Junction 18 M13: Fire, Fire, Pour on Water 18-19 M14: Malago Incognito 20 M15: Parson Street to Marksbury Road 20-21 M16: Malago Vale 21-22 M17: The Bedminster Triangle 22-23 M18: Cotswold Road Canyon 23-24 M19: Water Rail 24 M20: Clarke Street dog-leg 24-25 1 Wildlife Survey of Pigeonhouse Stream and the Malago (2010) 6.2 Pigeonhouse Stream 25-40 6.2.1 Dundry Slopes 26-33 P1: Lower slopes tributary stream 26-27 P2a: Pigeonhouse Stream (headwaters) 27 P2b: Pigeonhouse Stream (tufa stream) 28 P2c: Pigeonhouse Stream (ancient woodland) 28-29 P2d: Pigeonhouse Stream (middle slopes) 29 P2e: Pigeonhouse Stream (south of pipeline crossing) 30 P2f: Pigeonhouse Stream (pipeline crossing) 30 P2g: Pigeonhouse Stream (pipeline crossing to culvert) 31 P3: Main tributary 32 P3a: Minor stream 32 P4: Upper tributary stream 33 6.2.2 Hengrove Plain 34-40 P5: Resurgence 34 P6: Hareclive Road to Fulford Road 34-35 P7: Whitchurch Lane or Bust 35-36 P8: The Hengrove Lake District 37 P9: Crox Bottom 37-38 P10: Hartcliffe Way / Pigeonhouse Stream 39-40 7.