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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