Species List 2021

These are all the species recorded by our members in 2021. You can read about all of these in our various quarterly blogs (see our Wildlife Blogs page for the complete set).

Do keep sending us your sightings, whether common or rare. We’d like to celebrate the wonderful wildlife in our local area. You can post your sightings on our group Facebook page or add them to our web site (using  our Wildlife Sightings recording form). We love to see your photos as well, and would like to use them in the quarterly blogs (always with a photo credit to the photographer of course).

Birds (58 species)

Jackdaw

Carrion Crow

Rook

Magpie

Jay

Blackbird

Starling

Redwing

Fieldfare

Mistle Thrush

Wheatear

Skylark

Meadow Pipit

House Martins

Swifts

Swallows

Blue tit

Long-tailed tit

Great tit

Coal tit

Goldfinch

Brambling

Chaffinch

Bullfinch

Greenfinch

Chiffchaff

Whitethroat

Collared Dove

Wood Pigeon

Stock Dove

Heron

Curlew

Pheasant

Red-legged Partridge

Snipe

Robin

House Sparrow

Dunnock

Treecreeper

Nuthatch

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Wren

Goldcrest

Pied Wagtail

Grey Wagtail

Dipper

Buzzard

Red Kite

Kestrel

Merlin

Sparrowhawk

Barn Owl

Little Owl

Tawny Owl (heard only)

Black-headed Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Mallard

Pink-footed Goose

Wild Plants (45 species)

Lesser celandine

Butterbur

Sweet violet

Spurge Laurel (Daphne mezereum)

Wood anemone

Hart’s tongue fern

Hard shield fern

Polypody

Maidenhair spleenwort

Meadow saxifrage

Rue leaved saxifrage

Limestone bedstraw

Early purple orchid

Pyramidal orchid

Bee orchid

Common spotted orchid

Twayblade

Cowslips

Mouse ear hawkweed 

Common daisies 

Creeping buttercup 

Common dandelion

Tufted vetch 

Bitter vetch

Birds foot trefoil

Slender trefoil

Yarrow 

Cow parsley 

Biting stone crop 

Mayweed 

Lesser Stitchwort

Greater Stitchwort 

Germander Speedwell 

Bloody Cranesbill

Dovesfoot Cranesbill

Meadow Cranesbill

Meadowsweet

Jacob’s Ladder

Forget-me-not

Ox Eye daisies

Cuckoo flower

Red Clover

Ground Ivy

Field Wood Rush

Yellow Rattle

 

Fungi (2 species)

Scarlet elf cup

Wood ear fungus

 

Amphibians (2 species)

Frogs

Common toad

 

Mammals (17 species)

Badger

Bank Vole

Brown Rat

Field Mouse

Fox

Grey Squirrel

Brown Hare

Hedgehog

Common Pipistrelle bat

Soprano Pipistrelle bat

Serotine bat 

Noctule Bats

Daubenton’s Bats

Rabbit

Roe Deer

Stoat

Water Vole

 

Insects (47 species)

Comma butterfly

Common Blue butterfly

Brimstone butterfly

Brown Argus butterfly

Speckled Wood butterfly

Green Fritillary

Small Heath butterfly

Orange Tip butterfly

Large White butterfly

Green-veined white butterfly

Peacock butterfly

Red Admiral butterfly

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly

Ringlet butterfly

Large Skipper

Dingy Skipper

Small Skipper

White-Letter Hairstreak butterfly

Gatekeeper butterfly

Painted Lady butterfly

Purple Hairstreak butterfly

Small White  butterfly

Small Copper butterfly

Wall Brown butterfly

Meadow Brown butterfly 

Common Nettle Tap moth

Silver Carpet moth

Vapourer moth Caterpillar

Lime Hawk moth Caterpillar

Silk Button Gall Wasp

Buff-tailed bumble bee

Bumble bee (Bombus spp)

Honey bee

Grasshopper

Capsid Bug

Parasitic wasp

Sawfly caterpillar

Red Mite

Ladybird

Soldier beetle

Hoverfly

Micromoth

Thick kneed beetle

Froghopper

Large White butterfly

Olebrus beetle sp.

Wood lice

Thrip

Unidentified spider

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