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