Common is natural heathland with many tiny annual flowers in spring
and heathers and western gorse in
summer. Typical heathland birds and insects occur and, hopefully,
ant-lions (the larvae of a damsel fly-like insect,
only recently discovered in Suffolk) and Dartford warblers
will colonise from the nearby Minsmere area where they are found
in similar habitats. Rabbits
are important to maintain short turf for the early wild flowers.