Sinc Stream

The stream starts as a spring which leads to a pond on the eastern side of Main Street in Ketton and flows through a grass field before reaching the project area which runs alongside the foot path and then on to join the River Chater.

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A survey and management plan was commissioned by Ketton Parish Council and follows on from the report written in 2011 by the Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust. The survey and plan aimed to establish the current wildlife value of the Sinc Stream area and to recommend any management options for further development of the site as part of the Sinc Stream Project – a Heritage Lottery Funded project.

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The stream banks and footpath have an annual clearing in the autumn. Fool’s watercress is left in the stream, together with some logs and wood debris. They provide a range of food for algae, microbes and invertebrates, which, in turn, provide food for larger invertebrates. Woody debris also provides a launchpad for mayflies, stoneflies and caddis flies as they emerge from their larval to adult stage.

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Small streams fed from a spring are important habitats that need to be conserved. Already the rare white-clawed crayfish has disappeared from the stream, possibly due to competition from the American signal crayfish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Species recorded alongside Sinc Stream and footpath

 

Vascular Plants

 

Meadowsweet - Filipendula ulmaria

Wood avens - Geum urbanum

Hogweed - Heracleum sphondylium,

Willowherb - Epilobium sp.

Nettle - Urtica dioica

Herb Robert - Geranium robertianum

Creeping buttercup - Ranunculus repens

Cow parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris

Brooklime - Veronica beccabunga

Large bitter-cress - Cardamine amara

Dock sp. - Rumex sp.

Forget me not - Myosotis arvensis

Cleavers - Galium aparine

Pendulous sedge - Carex pendula

Ground Ivy - Glechoma hederacea

Cocks-foot - Dactylis glomerata

Fools water-cress - Apium Nodiflorum

Hedge woundwort - Stachys sylvatica

Garlic mustard - Alliaria petiolata

Dandelion - Asteraceae sp

 

Trees and Shrubs

Bramble - Rubus fruticosa

Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa

Elder - Acer sp.

Ash - Fraxinus sp.

Elm - Ulmus sp.

Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

Snowberry - Symphoricarpos albus

Field Maple – Acer campestre

 

 

 

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