“Here are some wonderful nature reserves up and down the country which have already been made in former quarries with wetlands for otters and wading birds , woodland for nightingales and woodpeckers, heathland for natterjack toads and … The Spring brings nesting small ringed plover and a large number of starlings (2000+) over-winter in the site’s restored reedbed. But, keen local nature-lovers report sightings of woodlarks on land adjacent to the quarry which …

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The RSPB: Threatened wildlife gets boost from Dorset quarries