Meadow

meadows


Apparently meadows and lawns of the reserve shouldn’t be very interesting from a naturalistic point of view, but this is not true: numerous species of wild animals or vegetation live together with men and share with them the cycle of seasons and harvests.
More than a half of the territory is pasture field, the remnant are crop fields and other kinds of cultivations.
Large sedges are the transitional grasses between reed thickets and cultivated meadows, where the mammalians of the reserve wander about: deers, roes, foxes, wild boars, badgers, beech-martens, weasels, hedgehogs and hares. Otters are to be considered extinct.
Among the fields you can see also numerous species of birds: sparrows, hoopoes, crows, skylarks, starlings, robins, tits, cutrettolas, swallows and herons. Among the big size birds are to be reported cranes, storks, buzzards, different kinds of hawks and kites.
On the trees and on the high tension cables it is easy to see also owls, tawny owls, owlets and barn owls, looking for their favourite preys: mice, and other little animals such as toads, frogs, lizards, green lizards, salamanders, natrixes, colubers, field mice and shrews.