Gateshead Birders

Windy Nook

Windy Nook Nature Park proposed LNR was created on an area of grassland and scrub in 1980 as a resource for local schools and community groups. The plant communities on this site include remnant dry acid grassland with ling, gorse and mat grass present. There is also a small spring fed wetland, scrub and hedge planting successfully established in the 1980s. The scrub supports a good warbler population for such an urban site, including blackcap, whitethroat, willow warbler and the locally uncommon lesser whitethroat.