Species & Sightings
Information on Key Species and Sightings on the heath
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You can download a PDF info sheet about the Digger Wasp found on the heath:
Digger Wasp ID Sheet
Below is a list of wildflowers identified on the heath recently during the workshop with Tracy Housley from Suffolk Wildlife Trust:
- Dove’s-foot crane’s-bill
- Germander speedwell
- Common vetch
- Sweet vernal grass
- Smooth meadow grass
- Field wood-rush
- Cocksfoot
- Yorkshire fog
- Common sorrel
- Fescue spp (probably Red fescue)
- Hogweed
- Rosebay willow-herb
- Barren brome (Sterile brome)
- False oat grass
- Common mugwort
- Rough chervil
- Garlic mustard
- Meadow oat grass
- Crested hair grass
- Kidney vetch
- Field mouse-ear
- Hop trefoil
- Yarrow
- Ladies bedstraw
- Smooth hawksbeard
- Bird’s-foot trefoil
- Red bartsia
- Ribwort plantain
- Dandelion
- Biting stonecrop
- Common cat’s ear
- Mouse-eared hawkweed
- Viper’s bugloss
- Wild carrot
- Bulbous buttercup
- Yellow oat-grass
- Greater scabious
- Soft brome
- Agrimony
- Creeping cinquefoil
- Broomrape spp (Knapweed broomrape?)
- Red clover
- Hairy tare
- Common ragwort
Below is a list of birds seen on the heath recently:
- Blue Tits
- Marsh Tits
- Black Birds
- Sparrows (Tree, Hedge)
- Buzzards
- Jays
- Pigeons
- Nightingales
- Robins
- Bullfinches
- Goldfinches
- Wrens
- Long-Tailed Tits
- Green Wood Peckers
- Greater Spotted Wood Peckers
- Rooks
- Crows
- Herring GUlls
- Kingfishers
- Sparrow Hawks
- Cuckoos
Below is a list of butterflies and moths seen on the heath recently:
- Large White
- Small White
- Green-veined White
- Brimstone
- Large Skipper
- Small Skipper
- Gatekeeper
- Meadow Brown
- Ringlet
- Speckled Wood
- Comma
- Painted Lady
- Small Tortoiseshell
- Red Admiral
- Peacock
- Common Blue
- Small Copper
- Six-spot Burnet Moth
Below is a list of other animals seen on the heath recently:
- Muntjac Deer
- Rabbits
- Foxes
- Woodmice
- Frogs
- Toads
- Sandlizards
- Bees
- Digger Wasps
- Willow Emerald Dragon Fly
- Blue & Brown Dragon Fly
- Spiders
- Midges
- Ticks