Wildlife Menu

We would like to thank all those who have given support to this project from the local community, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, the Forestry Commission, the Freshwater Habitats Trust, Alvecote and Shuttington Parish Council, Maurice Arnold (sadly now passed away), and all the contractors and friends, family and volunteers who have worked on the site and given us advice and support.

We are developing Alvecote Wood according to our Woodland Management Plan that has been agreed with and grant-aided by the Forestry Commission under the English Woodland Grant Scheme.

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Wildlife Photographs at Alvecote Wood

This section includes photographs of a range of wildlife at Alvecote Wood. All photos were taken by Sarah or Stephen using a variety of cameras, and are copyright to Pragmasis Ltd.

This page is currently being updated - in the meantime, please see our Photos page for slideshows, videos, photos and images of Alvecote Wood and its wonderful wildlife.

Butterflies and Insects

Butterflies and insects

Gatekeeper butterflies at Alvecote wood - 2008

Meadow brown	Ringlet

Broad-bodied chaser dragonfly	Speckled wood butterfly

Buff-tailed bumblebee on bramble flower	Four-spotted chaser dragonfly

Small red damselfly	Common blue damselflies

Large white butterfly on bramble	Comma butterfly

Large skipper butterflies on thistle	Red admiral butterfly

Ringlet butterfly on oak tree	Meadow brown on bramble

Painted lady butterfly on concrete floor	Two large white butterflies on thistle

Peacock butterfly on thistle	Comon darter dragonfly

Four-spotted chaser	Brimstone butterfly on thistle

Painted lady buttefly on thistle	Silver Y moth on thistle

Common blue butterfly on thistle - we don't get many of these at the wood.	Third generation speckled-wood on oak leaf

A lovely fly, feasting on thistle	Male orange-tip butterfly showing great camouflage on a nettle leaf

Large skipper butterfly	Green-veined white

Common blue butterfly	Male common blue

Gatekeeper butterfly	Purple hairstreak on an oak leaf

Mammals

Mammals at Alvecote Wood

Footprints of muntjac deer	Footprints of badger

Female muntjac deer (doe) with kid on a mown path (remote camera)	Squirrel on oak tree

Muntjac deer female at night (remote camera)	Rabbit in clearing at woods at dusk (remote camera)

Fox in clearing at dusk (remote camera)	Male muntjac deer (buck) - you can see the little short antlers

Badger at Alvecote Wood - this is where he is scent marking his territory but it still took a long time to get a photo (remote camera)

Birds

Birds at Alvecote Wood

Mallard duck on one of the new ponds	Mallard drake on original lower pond

Willow tit at Alvecote Wood	Sparrowhawk with collared dove prey - in our garden, but we have a pair at Alvecote Wood too.

Buzzard flying over Betty's Wood - these birds are regular visitors to the Wood and breed in or near the wood.	Kestrel hovering in the field adjacent to Alvecote Wood

Male pheasant in the field next to Alvecote Wood - they are in the wood too, but difficult to photograph there!	A lovely friendly little robin helping us with our coppicing work in the snow.

Another cheeky little robin	Lovely little dunnock

Blue tit on seed feeder	Yellowhammer

Great tit	Great tit ready to fly!

Nuthatch	Male chaffinch

Brilliant little blue tit	Another chubby little blue tit

Coal tit	Reed bunting

Flowering Plants

Flowering Plants at Alvecote Wood

Bluebells in flower April 2009	Daffodils along the access road

Crimson tulips	Greater stitchwort

White deadnettle	Bugle

Buttercup meadow	Foxglove with bumblebee

Bramble flower	Woody nightshade (bittersweet)

Hogweed flower against blue sky	Common hemp nettle - with pink flowers

Redshank flowers	Angelica flower head

Close-up of angelica flower	Somebody may tell me I'm wrong because this isn't on the list from the Wildlife Trust, but I think this is black horehound

False oat (grass) in the clearing	Water mint in flower by Pond 3

Musk Mallow	Wild raspberry by Pond 6

Cowslip	Primrose

Snakeshead fritillary	Snakeshead fritillary

Water-lily	Bur-reed

Borage	Hedge woundwort

Common poppy	Ox-eye daisy

Trees

Trees at Alvecote Wood

Huge old English (pedunculate) oak	Acorns of pedunculate (English) oak

Hazel catkins in winter	Sallow trees around the new lower ponds

A spooky crab apple tree	Oak Glade

Hawthorn in flower	Large Hazel

Larch - new leaves and cones	Hawthorn flower

Developing hazel nut	Lime leaves in autumn

Acorns	Hawthorn berries

Elderberries - and very nice wine they make too!	Wild Service Tree growing in the hedge at Alvecote Wood

Rose hips growing at Alvecote Wood	Blackthorn with sloes in the hedge at Alvecote Wood

Crab apples at Alvecote Wood - we have quite a few crab apple trees on the site	Elder leaves in Autumn at Alvecote Wood

Holly berries at Alvecote Wood - there are a few female trees with berries on the site.	Beautiful and characteristic ash buds forming in the Autumn