WILD OWL GARDEN SPECIES LIST
The list of animals that have been recorded in the garden is staggering and grows every year.
BIRDS
Over 50 species of birds have been recorded either in or over the Wild Owl garden including:
Blackbird
Blackcap
Blue Tit
Bullfinch
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal Tit
Common Buzzard
Dunnock
Feral Pigeon
Fieldfare
Garden Warbler
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Great-spotted woodpecker
Green Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
Gulls (various)
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Jay
Kingfisher
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard Duck
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Raven (overhead)
Red Kite (overhead)
Robin
Rook
Siskin
Song Thrush
Sparrowhawk
Starling
Swallow
Swift
Tawny Owl
Treecreeper
Wood Pigeon
Wren
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MOTHS
We've recorded over 200 species of moth in the garden including:
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Angle Shades
Bee Moth
Bird Cherry Ermin Moth
Blood-vein
Box Tree Moth
Brimstone Moth
Brindled Beauty
Brindled Pug
Brown China-mark
Buff Arches
Buff Ermine
Buff Tip
Canary=shouldered Thorn
Celypha lacunan
Chinese Character
Clepsis cosimilana
Clouded Drab
Clouded Silver
Common Carpet
Common Emerald
Common Footman
Common Marbled Carpet
Common Plume
Common Pug
Common Quaker
Common Rustic
Common Swift
Common Wainscot
Copper Underwing
Cork Moth
Cypress Carpet Moth
Dark Arches
Dark Spectacle
Double-striped Pug
Dusky Brocade
Early Grey
Elder Pearl Moth
Elephant Hawk-moth
Endotricha flammealis
Esperia sulphurella
Feathered Gothic
Feathered Thorn
Garden Carpet
Garden Tiger
Green Carpet
Grey Dagger
Heart & Club
Heart & Dart
Hebrew Character
Herald Moth
Hummingbird Hawk-moth
Hypsopygia glaucinalis
Knot Grass
Lackey
Large Yellow Underwing
Lesser Broad-bordered
Underwing
Light Brown Apple Moth
Little Grey
Lychnis Moth
Marbled Minor
March Moth
Middle-barred Minor
Mint Moth
Mother of Pearl
Mottled Pug
Nut Tree Tussock
Oak Beauty
Oak Tree Pug
Old Lady
Orange Swift
Pale Tussock
Pearl Grass Veneer
Poplar Hawk-moth
Privet Hawk-moth
Puss Moth
Red Green Carpet
Red Underwing
Riband Wave
Rustic-shouldered Moth
Scalloped Oak
Scorched Earth
Shuffle-shaped Dart
Silver Y
Small Bloodvein
Small Clouded Brindle
Small Emerald
Small Magpie
Square-spot Rustic
Straw Dot
Swallow-tailed Moth
Tachystola acroxantha
The Coronet
The Flame
Treble Lines
Twenty-plume Moth
V-pug
Vines Rustic
Wax Moth
White Ermin
White Plume
Willow Beauty
Wormwood Pug
Yellow Shell
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BUTTERFLIES
A variety of garden and woodland butterflies visit the garden each year including:
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Brimstone
Comma
Common Blue
Gatekeeper
Holly Blue
Large White
Marbled White
Meadow Brown
Orange-tip
Painted Lady
Peacock
Red Admiral
Ringlet
Small Tortoiseshell
Small White
Speckled Wood
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Visit the Wild Owl Nature Diaries You Tube channel to see a large collection of video diaries featuring the wildlife in the Wild Owl garden