General wildlife of site: Mammals: Foxes, badgers, dormice(rare), harvest mice, muntjac deer, moles
Birds: Tawney owls, sparrow hawks, song thrushes, woodpeckers (all three types). In summer many warblers; turtle doves, cuckoo, goldfinch, greenfinch, and other common garden species. Insects: Ivertebrate survey in 200 identified 241 species, 50 (21%) of which are of at least local importance. Further survey would undoubtedly reveal greater invertebrate interest. A particularly significant number of scarce and locally notable species was recorded for Araned (spider) coleopterd (beetles). |