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Sightings of Flowers & Wildlife - 2008

Page updated - 21 September 2008

Sightings within the area of Great Cornard between the end of June 2008 and the end of July 2008

 

Flowers

White dead nettle

Stinging nettle

Mallow

Wild parsnip

Hogweed

Thistle

Goatsbeard

Catsear I hawkbit?

Burdock

Knapweed

Field scabious

Ribwort plantain

Self-heal

Rosebay willowherb

St-John's wort

Meadow cranesbill

Cut-leaved cranesbill

Herb Robert

Red clover

White clover

Hop trefoil

Birdsfoot trefoil

Kidney vetch

Hairy tare

Grass vetchling (several plants - haven't seen this for about 5 years!)

Field poppy

Bistort

Meadow buttercup

Wild marjoram

Yellow rattle (lots!)

Several grasses, not identified

 

 

 

Butterflies (and other invertebrates)

Meadow brown

Gatekeeper

Large white

Speckled wood

Ringlet

Small skipper

Small blue

Red admiral (two)

Peacock (one)

Fritillary (two)

Moths not identified

Lots of dragonflies not identified

Also of note;

Roesel's bush cricket - numerous. Considered nationally scarce

Wasp Spider (From Southern Europe - Not normally seen in this area)

 

 

 

Birds

 

 

Kestrel

Sparrowhawk

Hobby (flying low over donkey field then allotment field)

Wood pigeon

Collared dove

Stock dove

Little owl

Tawny owl

Barn owl (several sightings)

Green woodpecker

Great spotted woodpecker

Pied wagtail

Starling

Magpie

Jay

Commom crow

Rook

Jackdaw

Dunnock

Chiffchaff

Willow warbler

Whitethroat

Blackcap

Goldcrest

Robin

Song thrush

Mistle thrush

Blackbird

Coal tit

Blue tit

Great tit

Long-tailed tit

Treecreeper

House sparrow

Chaffinch

Greenfinch

Bullfinch

Goldfinch

Linnet

Reed bunting

Yellowhammer 

 

 

 

Feeding overhead: Swallows, house martins, sand martins, swifts, black-headed and common gulls

 

 

 

Mammals

 

 

5 badgers, three 'adults' and two 'cubs'.