A visit to this small mixed farm during spring and early summer will be rewarded with spring flowers, birdsong and gambolling lambs. Little owl are sometimes seen in daylight perched on posts, and listen out for singing nightingale in the elder and bramble thickets at the farm’s two woodlands – Asylum and Cragpit Woods. Blackcap, whitethroat and garden warbler can be seen in the woods and hedges, skylark nest in the meadows and spotted flycatcher and pied wagtail flit around the farm buildings.

The arable land is managed commercially through a tenant farmer, while the farm’s meadows are grazed by Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Sandlings sheep flock. Hedges, which have been coppiced and replanted, provide a great source of winter food and act as wildlife corridors allowing insects, birds and mammals to travel from place to place without having to cross open farmland. Foxburrow is a good example of how modern agriculture and wildlife can thrive side by side.

Although nocturnal, little owl can sometimes be seen	Winter sunset	A well-equipped classroom caters for both children and adults

Six ponds teem with water boatmen, pond skater, diving beetle, water scorpion, toad, frog and newt. From late May onwards dragonfly including the broad-bodied chaser and ruddy darter and damselfly such as the common blue and large red, can be seen hovering over ponds or laying eggs in the water.

A wander along the farm trails gives visitors a chance to see some of the work done by the Trust and our tenant farmers to improve the site’s wildlife interest.

For information about education activities at Foxburrow Farm click here

Other Trust reserves nearby: Bromeswell Green, Hutchison’s Meadow

STAR SPECIES
Little owl
Nightingale
Skylark