Altitude: 263–289 m above sea level
Area: 40 ha
Material: Quaternary aeolian sands and river gravels of the Divoká Orlice River

 

Gravel extraction began in the 1920s and has been going on ever since. With the construction of houses, the scale of extraction increased. Mined areas are gradually reforested mainly with pine trees. There are fragments of windblown sand, disturbed sandy roadsides, pine forests and drainage channels in various stages of vegetation development.

 

Fungi

Sand-loving species: Pseudoomphalina pachyphylla, Hotlips (Octospora humosa)

Planted pine forests: albinotic form of the Slippery Jack (Suillus luteus f. albus), Orange Webcap (Cortinarius mucosus), Herald of Winter (Hygrophorus hypothejus), False Morel (Gyromitra esculenta)

 

Plants

Sand-loving species: Field Cudweed (Filago arvensis), Small Cudweed (Filago minima), Pearlwort Spurrey (Spergula morisonii), Breckland Garden (Thymus serpyllum), Shepherd's Cress (Teesdalia nudicaulis), Rare Spring-sedge (Carex ericetorum), Grey Hair-grass (Corynephorus canescens), Dillenius' Speedwell (Veronica dillenii), Chamomile Grape-fern (Botrychium matricariifolium; protected fern, rediscovered in the area after almost 80 years)

 

Invertebrates

Xerophilic species: click beetle Dicronychus equisetioides

 

Vertebrates

Sand-loving species (bound to exposed substrate): Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis); Sand Martin (Riparia riparia), Woodlark (Lullula arborea)

Combination of sandy and wetland habitats: Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris), Natterjack Toad (Epidalea calamita), European Common Toad (Bufo bufo), European Green Toad (Bufotes viridis); Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)