New Year's Day wildlife list
New Year's Day has been kicked off nicely with a wildlife count by volunteer Melissa. She found 37 bird species, 11 fungus, 10 flowering plants, 1 mammal (plus tracks of another 5) and 4 invertebrates!
Here's her breakdown:
Bird species
Blue tit
Blackbird
Kingfisher
Little grebe
Magpie
Coot
Stock dove
Wood pigeon
Goldfinch
Long-tailed tit
Robin
Wren
Nuthatch
Bullfinch
Chaffinch
Tree creeper
Siskin
Great tit
Eurasian teal
Grey heron
Mallard
Black-headed gull
Carrion crow
Curlew
Herring gull
Redshank
Dunnock
Coal tit
Shelduck
Moorhen
Jackdaw
Tufted duck
Great-spotted woodpecker
Pheasant
Goosander
Kestrel
Feral pigeon
Fungus
Candlesnuff
Velvet shank
Dead man's fingers
Giant puffball
Stump puffball
Glistening inkcap
Turkey tail
Artist's bracket
Orange jelly spot
Yellow brain
Oysterling (crepetoides)
Flowering plants
Gorse
Daisy
Dandelion
Ragwort
Groundsel
Pineapple weed
White dead nettle
Urtica sp
Hogweed
Field Scabious
Mammals
Grey squirrel
Brown rat (tracks)
Otter (tracks)
Red fox (tracks)
Roe deer (tracks)
Invertebrates
Garden snail
Blue bottle
Winter midge
Unidentified beetle larvae
