Haverton Hole, High Clarence

Haverton Hole is part of the future Teesside International Nature Reserve, which is due to open in 2008. If you turn towards the signs for Clarences Community Farm, and park up, you will see a little track which runs adjacent to the children's play area. A Sparrowhawk was seen flushing Goldfinch in these trees. Go down this track, then you will enter an open area, with a pool to your left, bear left, and eventually you will come across a much larger pool, with lots of reeds, and a couple of islands in the middle. Birds on the pool include Little Grebe, Coot, Moorhen, Mallards, Gulls, Heron etc. Little Egret have been spotted there. House and Sand Martins swoop overhead, in the summer. Raptors seen here include Hen and Marsh Harriers, Sparrowhawks, Peregrines, Kestrels, Hobby and Merlin. reed and Sedge Warblers can be seen in the reeds.