Wildlife

To see pictures of the wildlife found in different habitats on Abbey Farm, click on the images below:

Ponds and streams

  • Pond at dusk
  • Tadpoles in a pond
  • Mallard ducklings
  • Ponds at dusk
  • Wetlands
  • Chalk spring
  • Tadpoles
  • Bird hide with nesting swan

Pastures & wet grasslands

  • Meadow Saxifrage
  • Lapwing
  • Cuckoo flower
  • Hairy Oat-grass
  • Water Avens flower and developing seed head
  • Brimstone
  • Early Marsh Orchid
  • Adder's Tongue fern
  • Common Spotted Orchid
  • white Common Spotted Orchid

Arable fields, hedges and buildings

  • Lapwing nest
  • Brown Hare on organic green manure
  • Peacock butterflies hibernating
  • An area of recently planted mixed scrub in a field corner to attract invertebrates and nesting birds
  • Burrow of a solitary wasp in a farm track
  • White poppy
  • White poppy
  • Flower-rich cultivated margin
  • Sycamore leaves
  • Wild rose flower

Chalk grassland

  • Small scabious and common blue
  • Kidney vetch
  • Cowslips
  • Dropwort
  • Field Scabious with beetle Oedemera nobilis
  • Greater Knapweed
  • Kidney Vetch
  • Insect larvae eating Wild Parsnip
  • Marjoram with snail
  • Pyramidal Orchid. First recorded on Abbey Farm in 2015 when six plants appeared in three different sites
  • Rough Hawkbit with pollen beetles
  • Small Scabious and other flowers
  • Lady's Bedstraw
  • Andrena bimaculata