Banner image: Mark King

MILLENNIUM COUNTRY PARK, MARSTON MORETAINE

Tucked inside the Forest Centre is 'Spotters corner', an area where wildlife sightings can be recorded so that we (and you) can keep a month-by-month list of what species have visited the Park. Each calendar month we record and clear the board, ready for the next lot of wildlife spots!

If you're visiting and see a species to note then please add it to the clipboard with as much detail as possible for our volunteers to verify and update the blackboard, then check back here on the website for the updated list each month!

August wildlife sightings

Blackbird
Blackcap
Black-headed gull
Blue tit
Bullfinch
Buzzard
Canada goose
Carrion crow
Cetti's warbler
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Cinnabar moth caterpillar	Image (Instagram)
Collared dove
Common blue butterfly	Image (Instagram)
Common sandpiper
Common tern
Coot
Cormorant
Dunlin
Dunnock
Egyptian goose	Image (Instagram)
Feral pigeon
Gadwall
Garden warbler
Gatekeeper butterfly
Goldfinch	Video (Facebook)
Great crested grebe
Great spotted woodpecker
Great tit
Green sandpiper	Video (Facebook)
Green woodpecker
Greenfinch
Grey heron
Greylag goose
Grizzled skipper butterfly
Herring gull
House martin
Jackdaw
Jay
Kingfisher
Lapwing
Large white butterfly
Lesser black-backed gull	Video (Facebook)
Lesser whitethroat	Video (YouTube)
Little egret
Little grebe
Long-tailed tit
Magpie
Mallard
Marsh harrier
Meadow brown butterfly
Moorhen
Mute swan
Oystercatcher
Painted lady butterfly
Peacock butterfly
Pied wagtail
Pintail
Pochard
Purple hairstreak butterfly
Reed warbler
Ringed plover
Robin
Ruddy shelduck
Sand martin
Small heath butterfly
Small white butterfly
Snipe
Song thrush
Speckled wood butterfly
Stock dove
Swallow
Teal
Tufted duck
Turtle dove
Whitethroat
Willow warbler
Wood pigeon
Wren

With thanks to the Forest of Marston Vale volunteers for providing this wildlife sighting board and update service.