Deer's Leap Nature Reserve North Edgbaston

Get some green therapy! Visit a local nature reserve. Stop for a chat with other friendly visitors. Use a FREE app such as  Pl@ntNet (https://plantnet.org) to increase the fun by identifying trees, shrubs and flowers. 

This small urban site covering 4.5 acres contains a wonderful mix of informal woodland, ponds, boundary brook and meadow areas. The Wood can be traced back to medieval times. Shireland Brook flows along the site’s northern boundary. The site became synonymous with the Leaping Deer logo of Mitchells & Butlers Brewery. 

The wooded areas are an interesting mix of native trees and shrubs, including birch, ash, cherry, oak, field maple, wych elm, hazel and alder, as well as distinct blocks of of willow and sycamore. The habitats are popular with a range of bird species but particularly greater spotted woodpeckers.  

A large pond is home to smooth newts and is frequented by moorhens, mallards and herons. Around the banks you’ll see meadowsweet, water mint, flag iris and reedmace. The upper meadow supports a rich mix of flowers that buzzes with honeybees, grasshoppers, dragonflies and other insects. 

How to get there:
Park on Roebuck Rd, this is a residential area so please park considerately 

Buses: 80, 22