Last updated 17 October, 2008

Wildlife

There’s wildlife all around us so don’t forget your binoculars so that you can sit and relax by our pond, cup of tea or glass of wine in hand and nature watch !

Here are just a few of the animals we’ve seen in and around our property:

Reptiles
Common frog
Common lizard
Common toad
Edible frog
Fire salamander
Grass snake
Green lizard
Midwife toad
Slow worm
Smooth newt
Smooth snake

Mammals
Bat
Common dormouse
Common shrew
Fox
Garden dormouse
Hare
Hedgehog
Mink
Mole
Musk rat
Red squirrel
Roe deer
Vole

Weasel
Wild boar

Black redstart
Barn owl
Black kite
Blackbird
Blue tit
Bullfinch
Buzzard
Carrion crow
Chaffinch
Coal tit
Collared dove
Cuckoo
Field fare
Goldfinch
Greater spotted                  woodpecker
Great tit
Green plover
Green woodpecker
Greenfinch
Grey heron

Grey wagtail
Hedge sparrow
Hen harrier
Hobby
Hoopoe
House martin  
House sparrow
Jackdaw
Jay
Kestrel
Kingfisher
Lesser spotted
            woodpecker  
Linnet
Little grebe
Longtail tit
Magpie
Mallard
Moorhen
Night jar
Nuthatch

Osprey
Partridge
Pheasant
Pied wagtail
Raven  
Red start
Robin  
Shrike
Sky lark
Snipe
Sparrow hawk
Starling
Swift swallow  
Thrush
Turtle dove
Wheatear
White throat
Wood pigeon
Wren
Yellow hammer

Birds