Sentence examples for flood meadows from inspiring English sources

The ancient flood meadows of Clifton Ings and Rawcliffe Meadows to the north of the City of York have been confirmed as a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) this week, following a four month consultation period.

There are very few flood meadows left, although some significant areas remain on the lower reaches of the River Derwent.

The ings are flood meadows along the Ouse, while the strays are open common grassland in various locations around the city.

Here, they live up to their name, preferring flooded meadows, damp fields and watercress beds.

A neotropical migrant duck, the Blue-winged Teal can be found in marshes, pools, swampy grasslands, and flooded meadows.

The occurrence of abundant Poaceae and Cyperaceae pollen in the lake sediments since 7770 14C yr bp, suggest both the local colonization of unflooded mud banks around the lake margin and the formation of flooding meadows.

The ocean surge breached the ocean dunes and flooded Meadow Lane, the main village beach street, but it was passable by late morning on Sunday and dry on Monday.

If we think of the wonders of nature, whether it is a mile-high rock or a close-up view of grass stems in a flooded meadow, as being somehow escapist, and of Eggleston's images of a dead black guy in his coffin and a yellow courtesy taxi-phone as somehow more real, we are missing something.

Chris Sperring travels to the a flooded meadow near the New Forest to join Pete Potts from Operation Godwit.

And he can do that by planting trees and looking at something like the flood plain meadows partnership".

Demonstrations of the techniques used to flood the meadows are still carried out occasionally.