Bio-diversity

Blinkbonny is a working woodland. It was planted with a mixture of Japanese Larch, Scots Pine and Norway Spruce around about 1960, and had been plantation prior to that. Like a lot of plantation woodland the density of tree planting precluded a wide range of species, but we have been managing it with a much higher priority for bio-diversity over the last five years.

We are trying to map the flora and fauna of the woodland, but are far from experts in the field. We will use this page to list all the species that are identified by ourselves or visitors to the wood.

Trees	Flora	Fungi	Mammals	Birds	Insects	Amphibians
Scots Pine	Gorse	Cep	Brown Hare	Buzzard	Midge	Frogs ?
Japanese Larch	Bluebell	Bracket	Rabbit	Black Bird	Dragonfly	Toads?
Sessile Oak	Willow herb	Fly Agaric	Roe Deer	Robin	Mayfly	Newt
Rowan	Primrose		Fox	Greenfinch	Water Boatmen
Hazel	Dog rose		Weasel	Bullfinch	Honey bee
Holly	Thistle		Rat	Pheasant	Wasps
Alder	Lupin		Hedgehog	Woodcock	Bumble Bee
Sweet Chestnut	Foxglove		Wood mouse	Barn Owl	Woodlice
Horse Chestnut	Blackberry		Stoat	Kestrel	Ants?
Aspen	Wild raspberry			Sparrows	Spiders?
Ash	Cocksfoot			Wren	Ladybird - 7 spot
Norway Spruce	Meadow foxtail			Pied Wagtail
Willow	Timothy			House martins
Ash	Yorkshire fog			Swifts
Crab Apple	Dogwood			Treecreeper	Butterflies
Beech	Heather			Wood Pigeon	Peacock
Purple Beech				Thrush	Cabbage White
Silver Birch				Chaffinch	Red Admiral
Elder				Willow Warbler
Sycamore				Chiffchaff
				Cuckoo
				Blue Tit
				Great Tit
				Green Woodpecker
				Lapwing