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Locality
Lergravene (St. Magleby)
(Denmark)
55.592732 12.622749
2902
Description:
An agricultural area situated between the airport and the villages Ullerup and St. Magleby. Due to the risk of air strikes efforts have been made to limit the presence of birds in the area - gulls, crows and geese mainly. This includes hunting by the local land owners and also by deliberately choosing crops that are not popular with the birds. Today most fields are used to produce lawn grass. Lergravene, marked on the map with orange, has earlier been used to produce clay and also harbouring hangar facilities during WWII. Today it is a thicket area with two permant waterholes and a meadow-like open center in the middle that is maintained by grass-cutting and grassing (probably to a too heavy degree).
INTERESTS:
It is not an area that outsiders tend to use much. Therefore the people you are likely to meet are local horse-riders, joggers or dog-walkers.
Plants:
Early Marsh-Orchid [Kødfarvet Orkide] is common here - at least some years. And Water Avens [Eng-Nellikerod] is a character species covering most of the meadow.
Birds:
Breeding species are of the common openland type, without any being special other than Yellowhammer (E. citrinella) which is now very restricted on the island, but breeds in the fir belt marked on the map. Thruhs Nightingale (L. luscinia) probably breeds every year in the thicket at Lergravene (orange on the map). In winter both Hen Harrier and Rough-legged case be seen. The latter, though, rarely nowadays as it is in decline. Geese, mainly Barnacles but Anser geese too, use the area, but as mentioned above they are often chased away. In the fields along the Yellowhammer-firs both fringilla finches often winter.
Dragonflies:
dryas, puella, pulchellum, cyathigerum, najas, elegans, affinis, cyanea, imperator, depressa, quadrimaculata, cancellatum, flaveolum, sanguineum, vulgatum (16). All species are from the central orange-marked thicket.
The two permanent waterholes are difficult to overlook, but considering the modest size of the area, and the isolated location, I expect that most species breeding here are already on the list. At the SW-corner of the central meadow there is a depression that works as a temporary waterhole. In 2025 affinis was ovipositing here and flaveolum-males were present indicating the level of attraction this locality has on new visitors. However, grassing cattle might be a threat to the larvae as they invade the waterhole to eat the lush vegetation (Kalmus/Sweet Flag) and thereby very likely trample larvae and other living creatures to death.
INTERESTS:
It is not an area that outsiders tend to use much. Therefore the people you are likely to meet are local horse-riders, joggers or dog-walkers.
Plants:
Early Marsh-Orchid [Kødfarvet Orkide] is common here - at least some years. And Water Avens [Eng-Nellikerod] is a character species covering most of the meadow.
Birds:
Breeding species are of the common openland type, without any being special other than Yellowhammer (E. citrinella) which is now very restricted on the island, but breeds in the fir belt marked on the map. Thruhs Nightingale (L. luscinia) probably breeds every year in the thicket at Lergravene (orange on the map). In winter both Hen Harrier and Rough-legged case be seen. The latter, though, rarely nowadays as it is in decline. Geese, mainly Barnacles but Anser geese too, use the area, but as mentioned above they are often chased away. In the fields along the Yellowhammer-firs both fringilla finches often winter.
Dragonflies:
dryas, puella, pulchellum, cyathigerum, najas, elegans, affinis, cyanea, imperator, depressa, quadrimaculata, cancellatum, flaveolum, sanguineum, vulgatum (16). All species are from the central orange-marked thicket.
The two permanent waterholes are difficult to overlook, but considering the modest size of the area, and the isolated location, I expect that most species breeding here are already on the list. At the SW-corner of the central meadow there is a depression that works as a temporary waterhole. In 2025 affinis was ovipositing here and flaveolum-males were present indicating the level of attraction this locality has on new visitors. However, grassing cattle might be a threat to the larvae as they invade the waterhole to eat the lush vegetation (Kalmus/Sweet Flag) and thereby very likely trample larvae and other living creatures to death.
Lergravene
General area
