Flora and Fauna

Horse Copse CL

Adjoining the CL is a small deciduous woodland on a clay soil dominated by oak with occasional ash and downy birch and an under story dominated by hazel. The ground flora is rich with abundant ivy and bluebell. Other species include scaly male fern, moschantel, wood spurge, yellow pimpernel, primrose, wood speedwell, ragged robin and butcher’s broom.


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	The following Birds have all been seen in and around Horse Copse:-

Song Thrush	Mistle Thrush	Blackbird
Blue Tit	Long Tailed Tit	Great Tit
Coal Tit	Tree Creeper	Nuthatch
Robin	Wren	Dunnock
Bullfinch	Greenfinch	Goldfinch
Chaffinch	Spotted Flycatcher	Cuckoo
Green Woodpecker	Greater Spotted Woodpecker	Pigeon
Collar Dove	Barn Owl	Tawny Owl
Crow	Rook	Magpie
Jay	Kestrel	Buzzard
Pheasant	Jackdaw	Siskin
Gold Crest	Peregrine Falcon	Sparrow Hawk
Yellow Hammer	Swallow	Marsh Tit

In addition to the many birds, the quiet visitor may see rabbits, grey squirrels and Roe deer, and if lucky even stoats, field mice, bank voles and moles.

The Dartford Warbler is regularly seen on nearby Holt Heath and the Nightjar can be heard there on warm summer evenings with the occasional sighting as it swoops over the heather.

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