Wildlife - Part 2 - Birds, Insects and Mammals
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The site (together with the adjacent River Roding) provides a habitat for a good range of birds, including a very healthy population of Common Whitethroats. In the list that follows, those in ordinary font are thought to be usually present (in their season), those in italics rare or visitors, and those in bold may breed.
| Cormorant | May be seen flying over, occasionally feeds in Roding |
| Grey Heron | May be seen flying over, occasionally feeds in Roding |
| Canada Goose | May be seen flying over, rarely feeds on "Redbridge Field" |
| Mute Swan | May be seen flying over, rarely in Roding |
| Mallard | Occasionally in Roding |
| Sparrowhawk | Fairly Common |
| Hobby | Occasional |
| Kestrel | Common |
| Lapwing | Sometimes seen flying over |
| Black-headed Gull | A few, mostly in early mornings on "Redbridge Field" |
| Common Gull | A few, mostly in early mornings on "Redbridge Field" |
| Common Tern | Occasional along Roding |
| Wood Pigeon | Common |
| Feral Pigeon | Uncommon |
| Collared Dove | Fairly Common |
| Barn Owl | One found dead, presumably having hit overhead cables |
| Tawny Owl | Uncommon |
| Swift | Common |
| Kingfisher | Occasional along Roding |
| Green Woodpecker | Sometimes seen and heard |
| Greater Spotted Woodpecker | Sometimes seen and heard |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Uncommon |
| Skylark | Rare |
| Sand Martin | Passage in Spring and Autumn |
| Swallow | Passage in Spring and Autumn with some during the Summer |
| House Martin | Much less common now |
| Meadow Pipit | Uncommon |
| Yellow Wagtail | Uncommon |
| Grey Wagtail | Occasional by Roding |
| Pied Wagtail | Uncommon |
| Wren | Common |
| Dunnock | Common |
| Sedge Warbler | Occasionaly heard singing from edge of Roding |
| Blackcap | Fairly common |
| Whitethroat | Very common - many pairs |
| Willow Warbler | Common |
| Chiffchaff | Fairly Common |
| Goldcrest | Uncommon |
| Spotted Flycatcher | Rare |
| Robin | Common |
| Fieldfare | Sometimes seen in Winter |
| Blackbird | Common |
| Redwing | Sometimes seen in Winter |
| Song Thrush | Often seen and heard |
| Mistle Thrush | Fairly Common |
| Long-tailed Tit | Common |
| Coal Tit | Uncommon |
| Blue Tit | Common |
| Great Tit | Common |
| Chaffinch | Uncommon now |
| Greenfinch | Less common now |
| Goldfinch | Less common now |
| Linnet | Uncommon |
| Redpoll | Uncommon |
| Bullfinch | Less common now, though up to six females seen during early 2005 |
| House Sparrow | Uncommon, but feeds in stables and allotments adjacent |
| Starling | Common |
| Jay | Common |
| Magpie | Common |
| Carrion Crow | Common |
About 20 species of Butterfly have been seen here, and many moths. Other insects include an expanding population of the Banded Demoiselle Damselfly Agrion splendens, and a variety of Grasshoppers and Crickets including Roesel's Bush Cricket Metrioptera roeselii. Some of the insects recorded are listed below.
| BUTTERFLIES | ||
| Large Skipper | Ochlodes venatus | |
| Essex Skipper | Thymelicus lineola | |
| Gatekeeper | Pyronia tithonus | |
| Common Blue | Polyommatus icarus | |
| Large White | Pieris brassicae | |
| Green-veined White | Pieris napi | |
| Meadow Brown | Maniola jurtina | |
| Red Admiral | Vanessa atalanta | |
| Small Copper | Lycaena phlaeas | |
| Small Heath | Coenonympha pamhilus | |
| Small Tortoiseshell | Aglais urticae | |
| Small White | Artogeia rapae | |
| Speckled Wood | Pararge aegeria |
|
| Peacock | Inachis io | |
| Clouded Yellow | Colias croceus | |
| Comma | Polygonia c-album | |
| MOTHS | ||
| Mother Shipton | Callistege mi | |
| Burnet
Companion | Euclidia gliphica | |
| Cinnabar | Tyria jacobaeae | |
| Nemophora degeerella | ||
| Platyptilia pallidactyla | ||
| Thistle Ermine | Myelois circumvoluta | |
| Silver Y | Autographa gamma | |
| DRAGONFLIES and DAMSELFLIES | ||
| Banded Agrion | Agrion splendens | |
| Common Darter | Sympetrum striolatum | |
| Common Blue Damselfly | Enallagma cyathigerum | |
| Azure Damselfly | Coenagrion puella | |
| GRASSHOPPERS
and CRICKETS | ||
| Roesel's Bush-cricket | Metrioptera roeselii | |
| Meadow Grasshopper | Chorthippus parallelus | |
| Common Green Grasshopper | Omocestulus viridulus | |
| Common Field Grasshopper | Chorthippus brunneus | |
| Long winged cone-head | Conocephalus dorsalis | |
| OTHER INSECTS AND
SPIDERS | ||
| Wasp Spider | Argiope bruennichi | |
| Hoverfly | Chrysotoxum verralli | 22 June 2007 |
| a Tachinid Fly | unknown species | 26 June 2005 |
| a Mirid Bug | 23 May 2006 | |
| Bishop's Mitre | Aelia acuminata | 2 June 2006 |
| a beetle | Malachius bipustulatus | 23 May 2006 |
| Wasp Beetle | Clytus arietis | 2 June 2006 |
| Hedgehog | Erinaceus europaeus | |
| Mole | Talpa europaea | |
| Shrew | Sorex araneus | |
| Fox | Vulpes vulpes | |
| Weasel | Mustela nivalis | |
| Squirrel | Sciuris caroliensis | |
| Rabbit | Oryctolagus cuniculus | No sign seen in recent years |
| Water Vole | Arvicola amphibius | In the Roding during 1999 and 2000 |
| Muntjack | Muntiacus muntjak | Very occasional |
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