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:-

January 2009.
The Tawny owls successfully raised 2 chicks last summer.The young roe deer is still seen occassionally with its
mother, and we have found these two are especially fond of
roses and geraniums!
April 2009.
A buck and a doe are regularly seen in the copse and surrounding fields.

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
Blackcap	Raven	Fieldfare
Skylark	Reed Bunting

Long-tailed tits enjoying some peanuts

This is one of the tawny owl chicks having a snooze.
One of this years tawny owl chicks.

A yellow hammer looking for food

1 June 2009 2 owlets together. Two young Tawny owls

Two deer in their winter colours Two deer in the snow

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.

They are high up in the canopy of the wood.

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