Wildlife at the reserve

A wide range of habitats

The reserve is home to a wide range of wildlife. The following species have all been spotted during the day-to-day activities at the reserve or as part of environmental surveys.

The birds have been recorded at the Reserve and adjacent area since 2004 by Tim Lait. The butterflies have mainly been recorded by Steeple Woods Project Group member Patricia Frank.

Butterflies

Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary

Holly Blue

Green Veined White

Speckled Wood

Large White

Small Skipper

Painted Lady

Dark Green Fritillary (seen on the border of the reserve)

Green Hairstreak

Common Blue

Comma
Orange Tip
Ringlet
Meadow Brown
Red Admiral
Small Tortoiseshell
Small Copper
Large Skipper
Clouded Yellow

Dragonflies

Large Emperor
Gold Ringed
Broad Bodied Chaser

Resident Birds

Regular visitors or occur most years.
Blackbird Blackcap Black headed gull Blue tit Bullfinch Buzzard Chiffchaff Coal tit Collared dove Crow Cuckoo Curlew Dunnock Fieldfare Firecrest Goldcrest Goldfinch Great spotted woodpecker Great tit Greenfinch Green woodpecker Herring gull House martin (flying over) House sparrow Jackdaw Jay Kestrel	Long tailed tit Magpie Meadow pipit Mistle thrush Nuthatch Peregrine (flying over) Pied wagtail Raven (mainly flying over) Redwing Robin Rook Sand martin (flying over) Song thrush Sparrow hawk Starling Stonechat Swift (flying over) Swallow (flying over) Tawny owl Whitethroat Willow warbler Whimbrel (most years) White wagtail Woodcock (most years) Wood pigeon Wren

Migrant Birds

Occasional visitors or only spotted on a few occasions.
Black redstart Brambling Canada Goose (flying over) Cormorant (flying over); Fulmar (flying over); Garden warbler Golden plover (flying over) Grey wagtail Grey plover (flying over) Linnet Merlin (flying over) Nightjar	Pied flycatcher Ring plover (flying over) Short eared owl (flying over) Siskin Skylark Snipe Spotted flycatcher Wheatear Wryneck Yellow wagtail Yellow browed warbler

Animals

Rabbits (lots of them!)
Foxes
Grey Squirrel

Badgers
Hedgehogs

Reptiles

Adders (they are very shy!)
Common Frog

Common Lizard
Common Toad

Plants

We also have 18 species of Liverwort and 52 species of Moss.

Fox Glove
Heath Spotted Orchid
European Gorse
Western Gorse
Common Nettle

Large Flowering Evening Primrose
Buddleia
Honeysuckle
Atlantic Ivy
Bracken

Trees

Holly
Scots Pine
Silver Birch
Downy Birch (mostly planted by volunteers)
Sycamore
Turkey Oak
Ash (pre-existing species)
Beech

Oak
Hazel
Rowan
Hawthorn
Alder
Elder
Blackthorn