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Story summary
- The Larkrise rewilding project restored ten acres of land with diverse flora and fauna.
- Owners James and Mary planted indigenous seeds and cuttings on the ponds’ clay banks.
- Excavated ponds remain filled, drawing swallows, buzzards, goldfinches and clouded yellows.
- Camera traps recorded foxes, roe deer, barn owls and weasels visiting regularly.
- The century-old Cullas of Metherell well shows better water levels than feared.