Hayle Kimbro Pool

Coordinates: 50°00′27″N 5°13′06″W / 50.00758°N 5.21831°W / 50.00758; -5.21831 Hayle Kimbro Pool is a wetland on The Lizard, Cornwall. It is situated two miles (3 km) southeast of Mullion immediately northeast of Predannack airfield[1] at grid reference SW 695 169.

The wetland site consists of three shallow ponds with a combined winter surface area of 23,000 square metres. It forms part of the West Lizard Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The aquatic plant communities at the site are typified by Common Spike-rush, Common Cottongrass, Water Mint and Marsh Pennywort.

Hayle Kimbro Pool hosted Britain's first Scarlet Dragonfly in 1995 and was also the first site at which breeding evidence for the Lesser Emperor was detected, in 1999 [2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  2. ↑ Jones, Steven P. (1996) The first British record of the Scarlet Dragonfly Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé) Journal of the British Dragonfly Society Vol. 12 No. 1 pp. 11-12
  3. ↑ Jones, Steven P. (2000) First proof of successful breeding by the Lesser Emperor Anax parthenope (Sélys) in Britain Journal of the British Dragonfly Society Vol. 16 No. 1 pp. 20-23
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