Great Canfield Flora & Fauna
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Appendix
Trees, bushes, shrubs and climbers commonly observed in Great Canfield Acacia Alder Apple Ash Beech Blackberry Blackthorn Bullace Cherry Crab Apple Dog Rose Elm English Oak Guelder Rose Hawthorn Hazel Holm Oak Hornbeam Horse Chestnut Lime Maple Norway Spruce Red Oak Silver Birch Spindle Sycamore Turkey Oak Walnut Wild Pear Willows (various) Yew Birds observed in Great Canfield (since 1978) Barn owl* Blackbird* Black-headed gull Blue tit Bullfinch* Buzzard Canada goose Chaffinch Chiffchaff Coal tit Collared dove Common gull Common teal Coot Crow Cuckoo Dunnock* Egret Fieldfare Garden warbler Goldcrest Goldfinch* Great tit Greater spotted wood- pecker Green sandpiper Green woodpecker Greenfinch Grey heron Grey Partridge* Herring gull House martin House sparrow |
Jackdaw
Jay Kestrel Kingfisher Lapwing Lesser black-backed gull Lesser spotted wood- pecker Linnet* Little grebe Little gull Little owl Longtailed tit Magpie Mallard Marsh tit* Meadow pipit Mistle thrush Moorhen Mute swan Nightingale* Pheasant Redbacked shrike Red-legged partridge Redshank Redstart* Redwing Robin Rock dove Rook Siskin Skylark* Snipe* Song thrush* Sparrowhawk Spotted flycatcher* Starling* Stock dove Swallow Swan Swift Tawny owl Tree sparrow* Treecreeper Tufted duck Turtle dove* Wheatear Willow tit* Willow warbler Wood pigeon Woodcock Wren Yellowhammer Vertebrates observed in Great Canfield Adder* Badger* Common shrew Dormouse Fallow deer Frog Grass snake* Grey squirrel Hare Harvest mouse Hedgehog Lizard Mink Mole Muntjac deer Newt Pipistrelle* |
Rabbit
Rat Red fox Stoat Toad Water vole* Weasel Invertebrates commonly observed in Great Canfield (many species of each) Bee Beetle Butterfly Caddisfly Damselfly Dragonfly Garden invertebrates (ant, slug, worm, etc) Grasshopper Hornet Mayfly Moth Snail Stonefly Wasp Plants commonly observed in Great Canfield Cow Parsley Wood Anemone Bluebell Bugle Creeping buttercup Red campion Lesser celandine Clover Coltsfoot Comfrey Cowslip Daisy Nettle Common dog-violet Water figwort Foxglove Ground ivy Lords and Ladies Meadowsweet Oxlip Poppy Primrose Herb Robert Snowdrop Germander speedwell Teasel Thistle Toadflax Great willowherb Rosebay willowherb Yarrow Common inhabitants of the River Roding in Great Canfield Bullhead Crayfish Freshwater mussel Gudgeon Minnow Stickleback |
Stoneloach
Fungi commonly observed in Great Canfield Shaggy ink cap Cep Fairy ring champignon Honey fungus Parasol mushroom Puff-ball Toadstool Sources To the reader: please add your own observations! • Trees and birds: courtesy of the Perry family • The remainder: our own obser- vations, with the help of lists of species on the website of the Es- sex Wildlife Trust • * indicates species in decline or rapid decline, according to the Essex Wildlife Trust |