title: Englemere Pond
text: # Englemere Pond
  
  Englemere Pond is a 26.1-hectare (64-acre) 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
  