Wildlife Survey Foxes Bridge Colliery Tip and old Trax Site

27 June 2017

Members of the Dean Green Team took part in a wildlife survey at Foxes Bridge Colliery Tip and old Trax Site. We split into three groups and recorded the plants and species. The weather was good and there was an absolute abundance of Ringlet butterflies. We also had our annual barbeque which is a fitting end to our last year of work and most appreciated!

Foxes Bridge Colliery Tip Plants found:-

Birds Foot Trefoil
Brachapolium Sylvaticum
Bramble
Buddleia
Coltsfoot
Common Sorrel
Common Spotted Vetch
Cranesbill
Creeping Buttercup
Creeping Cinquefoil
Creeping Thistle
Daisy
Eyebright
Fairy Flax
Fern
Forget-me-not
Foxglove
Glaucus Sedge
Heath Bedstraw
Horsetail
Lesser Trefoil
Maise Eared Hawkweed
Marsh Thistle
Nettle
Pink Clover
Pink Selfheal
Plantain
Ragwort
Self Heal
Smooth Hawksbeard
Soft Rush
Tormentil
Western Gorse
White Clover
Wild Strawberry
Wild Thyme
Yellow Stitchwort
Yorkshire Fog

Other species:

Ringlet Butterfly / Abundant and all around
Large Skipper Butterfly
Marbled White Butterfly
Small Heath Butterfly
Cinnabar Moth
Bumble Bee / Black and orange rear
Bumble Bee / Buff stripes
Hover Fly
Funnel Web Spider
Long-bodied Dragonfly
Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar
Boar signs / Churned up all around

Foxes Bridge Ponds Plants found:-

Broadleaved Pond Weed
Bog Pimpernel
Bull Rush
Common Fleabane
Sandwort
Thistle
Vetch
Wild Strawberry

Other species:

Ringlet Butterfly / Abundant and all around
Blue Tailed Damselfly
Brown Chinamark Moth
Cinnabar Moth
Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar
Common Blue Damselfly
Emperor Dragonfly
Large Red Damselfly
Lestes Sponsa Damselfly
Long-bodied Dragonfly
Longhorn Beetle
Orthetrum Coerulescens Darter
Pond Skater
Red Eyed Damselfly
Scarlet Tiger Moth
Silver Washed Fritillary
Spotted Chaser / 4
Tree Bee
Various Hoverflies and Wasps / Abundant
Water Boatmen / Common back swimmer
Whirlygig Beetle

Old Trax Site Plants found:-

Birds Foot Trefoil
Black Medic
Bramble
Broad Leaved Willow Herb
Common Sorrel
Common Spotted Vetch
Creeping Buttercup
Creeping Cinquefoil
Creeping Thistle
Daisy
Deadly Nightshade
Dock
Enchanters Nightshade
Fairy Flax
Fern
Forget-me-not
Foxglove
Germander Speedwell
Great Mullien / Dotted about
Hawkweed
Heath Bedstraw
Hedge Woundwort
Hemp Agrimony
Herb Robert
Horsetail
Hounds Tongue
Lesser Stitchwort
Meadow Vetchling
Nettle
Pignut
Pink Selfheal
Plantain
Ragwort
Red Clover
Scarlet Pimpernel
Self Heal
Silverweed
St.Johns Wort
Western Gorse
White Clover
Wild Rose
Wild Strawberry
Wild Thyme
Yarrow

Old Trax Site Other species:

Shrew / Found Dead
Bombus Terrestris
Funnel Web Spider
GrassHopper
Shield Bug
Burnet Companion Moth
Cinnabar Moth
Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar / Abundant on Ragwort
Comma Butterfly
Grass Moth
Large Skipper Butterfly
Marbled White Butterfly / Quite a few
Meadow Brown Butterfly
Painted Lady Butterfly / Only 1 seen
Ringlet Butterfly / Abundant and all around
Silver Washed Moth
Silver Y Moth
Small Heath Butterfly
Small Skipper Butterfly
Small White Butterfly
Speckled Wood Butterfly

Birds:

Blackbird
Blackcap
Blue Tit
Chiffchaff
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Green Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Linnet
Nuthatch
Robin
Song Thrush
Willow Warbler
Wood Pigeon
Wren

Damselfly

Small Skipper

Ringlet

Hover Fly

Cinnabar Moth Caterpillars