Wildlife sightings in Narroways region, St.Werburghs, Bristol BS2
1 st April to 30th June 2007
Map of Narroways at http://freespace.virgin.net/harry.jen/narroways.map.html
Species
Brimstone butterfly (1230)
Brimstone butterfly
Newt eggs (all tadpoles disappeared from pond – eaten by
newts?)
Song thrush
Blue Tit, Comma, Peacock butterfly
Speckled wood (0930), 2 Raven (1300, flying west),
Peacock butterfly (1315), 2 Goldcrest (1400)
Bluebells (in full flower)
Speckled Wood, 4 Raven (flying North West overhead)
5 Jay, 3 Magpie, 2 Carrion crow, 6 Blue tit, 3 Great tit,
Sparrowhawk (chasing Feral pigeon), Dunnock, 2 Robin,
Song thrush, 2 Blackbird, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Collared dove, 4
Wood pigeon, 2 Mallard; 2 Speckled wood, 2 Peacock
butterfly, Orange tip, Large white, Brimstone butterfly, 2
Smooth newt, Slow worm
Slow worm (under matting), frog, white butterfly sp.,
Chiffchaff (heard), Wren, Robin, Greenfinch (all Lynmouth
Rd allotments) Grey squirrel, 2 Blackbird (m &f) (wooded
area by stream, Church Path) 2 Speckled wood, 16
hoverfly sp.(garden, St Werburghs Park)
Small tortoiseshell
3 Slow worm (under carpet), Wren, Chiffchaff (heard),
Blackbird, Greenfinch, Blackcap (heard), White butterfly sp.
House sparrow (collecting nesting material)
Great tit (in old gas lamp- nest building?), Robin & Wren (
singing in Elder), Chiffchaff (in tree by stream, darting off a
branch for insects, like a flycatcher), Chaffinch (m),
Greenfinch & Blackcap (heard singing), Dunnock (on path),
6 Wood pigeon (in tree), Ramsons & Celandine in flower
Sparrowhawk, Robin, Chiffchaff (heard), Blue tit, Great tit,
Magpie, Blackbird (singing), Wren, Chaffinch
Orange tip
Orange tip (1245)
Orange tip (1630 on sunny, warm day)
Locality
Briavels Grove
Lynmouth Rd Allotments
Briavels Grove
Date
1.4.2007
1.4.2007
Early 4.2007
Witnessed by
Guy Watson
Mike Shotter
Guy Watson
Church path
Lynmouth Rd Allotments
Briavels Grove
2.4.2007
5.4.2007
6.4.2007
Mike Shotter
Mike Shotter
Guy Watson
Church Path
Lynmouth Rd Allotments
Simons Grove
6.4.2007
6.4.2007
8.4.2007
Ruth Williams
Mike Shotter
Jan Walters
Narroways & district
8.4.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Lynmouth Rd Allotments
Lynmouth Rd allotments
8.4.2007
9.4.2007
Mike Shotter
Harry McPhillimy
Briavels Grove
Lynmouth Road allotments
9.4.2007
10.4.2007
Guy Watson
Harry McPhillimy
Simons Grove/Ash wood
10.4.2007
Ruth Williams
Community gardens
Briavels Grove)
Gardens at Narroways Road
14.4.2007
14.4.2007
14.4.2007
2 Grey squirrel (in Yew, St Werburghs Church) 2 Chaffinch
(f, in Elder), Long-tailed-tit (on raspberry cane), Blackbird &
Robin
Blackcap (singing), 2 Long-tailed-tit
Song thrush, 6 Blue tit, 3 Great tit, 5 Jay, Dunnock, Wren, 3
Lynmouth Road allotments
14.4.2007
Mike Shotter
Guy Watson
Chris Rumble, Chris
Weedon, Mo McManus,
David Wilcox
Harry McPhillimy
Community garden
Simons Grove
15.4.2007
15.4.2007
Ruth Williams
Jan Walters
Magpie, Robin, 3 Blackbird, 2 Chaffinch, Collared dove, 2
Wood pigeon; 11 Common toad; 3 Smooth newt; Slow
worm; Wood mouse; 2 Grey squirrel; Peacock butterfly, 2
Speckled wood, 2 Brimstone, Common blue, Small and
Large white butterfly
Song thrush (0520 singing)
Badger 2105 – 2115, f, 75cm long, feeding on peanuts,
oblivious to light from house)
Hawthorn (in blossom)
Brimstone moth (Opisthograptis luteolata, 0900)
Long-tailed-tit (1930, in tree)
2 Slow worm, 3 Smooth newt; Tawny owl (heard 05300545) ; 6 Blue tit, 3 Great tit, Song thrush, 3 Blackbird,
Robin, Dunnock, 5 Magpie, 3 Jay, 2 Carrion crow, Collared
dove; Common blue, 3 Speckled wood, 2 Orange tip,
Brimstone and Large white butterfly; 3 Grey squirrel; 2
Large Red Damselfly; Wood mouse and Brown rat
2 Speckled wood (1300)
2 Speckled wood, blue sp., Comma, Orange tip, >1 White
sp., 2 Chiffchaff (heard), Blue tit (1100)
Sparrowhawk (flying from Sycamore carrying nesting
material)
2 Magpie, 2 Chaffinch, 3 Jay, 8 Feral pigeon, 6 Blue tit, 2
Carrion crow, Collared dove; 3 Toad; 2 Slow worm; Bluetailed damselfly, 2 Broad-bodied chaser; >50 Coreus
marginatus (squash bug, on rhubarb), 4 Acanthosoma
haemorrhoidale (hawthorn shield bug, on hawthorn)
(Early bird walk around Narroways, 0700- 0900)
Jay, Magpie, Chiffchaff, Song thrush, Wood pigeon, Robin,
Blackbird, Wren, Chaffinch, Blackcap, Blue tit, Greenfinch,
Dunnock, Bullfinch (m, Stoney lane), 2 Great tit, 3 Longtailed-tit, House sparrow, 2 Raven (flying overhead Boiling
Wells – heard croaking), Goldfinch, Whitethroat (0900,
singing from fence by gas holder scrub), Feral pigeon, Gull
sp.
Swift (1435, first of year)
Wren, Chiffchaff, Blackbird, Robin, Great tit (fly to nest in
gas lamp), Blackcap, 7 Swift (1730 – first of year); Slow
worm (under carpet) & shed Slow worm skin, Smooth newt
(in pond), tadpoles (in bathtub), Speckled wood
Walnut tree (in full leaf-early), Ash (in full leaf, late – due to
warm dry spring?)
8 Swift (1000, flying & calling), 2 Large red damselfly (in
tandem, 1415)
Dunnock, 3 Blackbird, Song thrush, 10 Long-tailed tit, 2
Carrion crow, Tawny owl (heard 0530-0600) ; 3 Rose
chafer beetle; 5 Orange tip, 7 Speckled wood and a Large
white butterflies; 5 Toad; 6 Slow worm, 2 Large red
Simons Grove
Garden, Narroways Road
16.4.2007
16.4.2007
Community garden
Briavels Grove
New Barn site
Simons Grove
17.4.2007
18.4.2007
18.4.2007
19.4.2007
Ruth Williams
Harry McPhillimy,
Jenny Poppy
Ruth Williams
Guy Watson
Harry McPhillimy
Jan Walters
Garden, St Werburghs Park
Stoney path
19.4.2007
21.4.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Harry McPhillimy
Railway embankment
22.4.2007
Ruth Williams
Simons Grove
26.4.2007
Jan Walters
Narroways & district
28.4.2007
Des Bowring, Harry
McPhillimy, Sally
Oldfield
Above Sevier Street
Lynmouth Road allotments
29.4.2007
29.4.2007
Ruth Williams
Harry McPhillimy
Around St Werburghs
29.4.2007
Ruth Williams
Briavels Grove
30.4.2007
Guy Watson
Simons Grove
30.4.2007
Jan Walters
damselfly; Wood mouse (killed by cat)
Goldfinch (1745)
Bat (2130, probably Pipistrelle, flying by bushes), Fox (near
top of cutting)
Blackbird, Song thrush, Moths ( flying up from Honeysuckle
at dusk, Venus twinkling high in NW sky)
Speckled wood (1400), 2 Azure damselfly (1500,
ovipositing)
Chiffchaff , Blackbird & Blackcap (all singing), 2 Great tit
(feeding chicks in old gas lamp), Jay, Red admiral, Blue sp.
Dunnock (killed by cat)
3 Collared dove, 6 Great tit, 5 Blue tit, Magpie, 2 Wood
pigeon, 3 Blackbird, Jay, 3 Chaffinch; 3 Grey squirrel; 3
Slow worm; 2 Common frog; Toad; 5 Smooth newt; 19
Ladybird larvae (on Dogwood); 4 Large red damselfly, 6
Blue-tailed damselfly; 3 Broad-bodied chaser; Wood
mouse; Tawny owl (heard 2315-2350)
Blackbird & Chiffchaff (singing), 16 Swift (1800 flying low
over embankment. Very wet day – stream highest I’ve seen
it)
>20 Swift (2000, screaming and hawking for insects, flying
low)
Long-tailed-tit (1930, in tree)
Song thrush (1830 singing from Elder), Blackbird (singing
by Climbing centre)
Heron ( at garden pond)
Raven (1800, being mobbed by seagulls near church tower
– large, black bird with low call, wedge tail); Slow worm
(under matting on allotment)
8 Long-tailed tit, 3 Blackbird
Blue tit (juveniles, 1800, on feeder)
Fox (2100, very close - healthy, with bushy tail)
Song thrush (1545, singing)
Swift (1745)
Jay, Blackbird, Robin, Chiffchaff, Swift (1900)
Slow worm (on pavement)
Holly blue?
Fox (1900)
12 Long-tailed-tit (1700, flying across back gardens, wet
day)
>5 Scarlet tiger moth
Fox (1900)
5 Marbled white
(Official Narroways walk 1100 -1300 warm but overcast)
Garlic mustard, Herb robert, Herb bennett, Corky fruited
water dropwort, Hogweed, Cow parsley, Beaked
hawksbeard
Tesco car park, Eastville
Narroways hill
30.4.2007
1.5.2007
Ruth Williams
Ruth Williams
Garden, St Werburghs Park
2.5.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Briavels Grove
5.5.2007
Guy Watson
Lynmouth Rd allotments
6.5.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Simons Grove
Simons Grove
7.5.2007
9.5.2007
Jan Walters
Jan Walters
Lynmouth Rd allotments
13.5.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Over Narroways hill
13.5.2007
Ruth Williams
Lynmouth Rd allotments
Lynmouth Rd allotments
14.5.2007
17.5.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Harry McPhillimy
Boiling Wells lane
By St Werburghs climbing
centre
5.2007
19.5.2007
Dom Wood
Harry McPhillimy
Simons Grove
Briavels Grove
Briavels Grove
By old Ashley hill station
Over Lynmouth Rd allotments
Lynmouth Rd allotments
By railway tunnel
Garden Minto Road
Briavels Grove
St Werburghs Park
21.5.2007
23.5.2007
23.5.2007
24.5.2007
24.5.2007
25.5.2007
25.5.2007
26-29.5.2007
30.5.2007
31.5.2007
Jan Walters
Ruth Williams
Sarah Waterfield
Ruth Williams
Ruth Williams
Harry McPhillimy
Ruth Williams
Paula Hufton
Sarah Waterfield
Harry McPhillimy
Briavels Grove
Briavels Grove
Narroways Hill
Narroways & district
Late 5.2007
1.6..2007
2.6.2007
3.6.2007
Guy Watson
Sarah Waterfield
Mike Shotter
Rupert Higgins
Cut-leaved cranesbill, Upright brome
Birds-foot trefoil, Yellow oat grass, Crow garlic, Bulbous
buttercup, Greater knapweed
Red clover, Ribwort plantain, Hoary plantain
Lesser trefoil, Common vetch, Vervain
Ladies bedstraw, Yarrow, Field bindweed
Common mallow, Black horehound, Curled dock, Wild
carrot, Teasel, Wall barley
Strawberry (garden), Goat’s beard
Sainfoin (only Bristol site?), Restharrow
Mugwort, Bladder campion, Mouse-ear hawkweed, Black
knapweed
Burnet saxifrage, Grass vetchling, Field forget-me-not,
Prickly sow thistle, Common ragwort, Sorrel, Narrow
leaved everlasting pea, Common mouse ear, Rough
hawkbit
Hoary ragwort, Round leaved cranesbill
Deprassaria pastinacella (a moth which infests the corky
fruited water dropwort)
A conehead nymph, Vines rustic (a moth)
Meadow grasshopper, Banded snail
Ladybird, Froghopper, Bishop’s mitre (a bug)
Thick-Kneed beetle, Rose chafer, Scarlet tiger moth, Grass
moth, Red fescue
Burnet companion moth, Thistle ermine moth
Marbled white, Yellow shell moth, Common blue, Straw dot
moth
Roe deer buck (at 5.30am – “ It was caught by surprise
when I got in from a party, it was extremely close to me,
right outside my conservatory door & it had opened my
brown recycling boxes rummaging for food... The deer was
very healthy & gambolled / bolted up garden & over fence
when it saw me”)
Narroways Road garden
3.6.2007
Candi Tyler
Bullfinch (0730, heard), 5 Great tit (1400, 4 juv)
Raven (0930, calling, flying north chased by 2 crows)
House sparrow, Dunnock, 3 Blue tit, 2 Blackbird, Jay, 2
Collared dove, Raven on bird table (“far too large to be a
crow”); Grey squirrel; >100 flowering grass vetchling;
Garden tiger moth
Raven (0930, calling overhead, flying North)
Crow (juv, on wall by house in St Werburghs Park – 1
metre away), Marbled white (1700, 1st of year in Church
field): Blackcap (1930, singing from Elder), 3 Blackbird, 2
House sparrow (Lynmouth Rd allotments)
2 Robin (adult feeding juv)
2 Toad (1015, 1 large, 1 smaller), Smooth newt (3”. Lizardlike, torpid, olive brown & spotted above, paler below with
orange area , separate toes, no crest)
Grey wagtail (1945, flew up from stream), Blackcap, Song
thrush & Blackbird (singing)
3 Broad-bodied chaser, Emperor dragonfly; 5 Blue-tailed
and 4 Large red damselflies; Sparrowhawk
Blackcap (1930, singing), 11 Swift (quite high)
3 Broad-bodied chaser, 3 Emperor dragonflies (2 male:
one catching Large white butterfly, 1 female laying), 13
Blue-tailed and 4 Large red damselflies; Common lizard;
Song thrush (heard); 2 Collared dove, 5 Wood pigeon, 4
Chaffinch, House sparrow, Dunnock, 3 Blue tit, 2 Great tit,
Robin, 3 Blackbird, 2 Jay; Meadow brown and Large white
butterfly; Garden tiger and Six-spot burnet moth; 21
Crescent moth larvae and Webb’s wainscot larva (on
Yellow flag iris); 9 Eristalis larvae (rat-tailed maggot, in
bucket)
Mullein moth (on Mullein), Fox (2200, in good condition)
Toad (1600, juv? )
Jay, Magpie, Blackbird, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Bullfinch,
Long-tailed-tit, Blue tit, Great tit, Robin, House sparrow,
Dunnock; badger (still seen most nights, feeding on
peanuts)
Greater spotted woodpecker (1300, on Fir tree)
>100 Peacock caterpillars (on Nettle)
6 House sparrow (0800, fling to & from hedge and
meadow)
2 Marbled white, 6 House sparrow, 1st Gtr Knapweed in
flower
Bullfinch 1400, m, on washing line)
Red admiral butterfly (on Mina Road planter)
Toad (0945, in rain)
Briavels Grove
Over Briavels Grove
Simons Grove
3.6.2007
4.6.2007
4.6.2007
Guy Watson
Guy Watson
Jan Walters
At Mina Rd near City Fm.
Narroways & district
4.6.2007
5.6.2007
Ruth Williams
Harry McPhillimy
Briavels Grove)
Back garden Mina Rd near City
Farm
5.6.2007
6.6.2007
Ruth Williams
Ruth Williams
Church Path
7.6.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Simons Grove
8.6.2007
Jan Walters
Lynmouth Rd allotments
Simons Grove
10.6.2007
10.6.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Jan Walters
New Roots allotment site
Back garden Mina Rd near City
Farm
Garden, Narroways Road
11.6.2007
11.6.2007
Guy Watson
Ruth Williams
6.2007
Mo McManus & David
Wilcox
Briavels Grove
Briavels Grove
Church field
11.6.2007
12.6.2007
13.6.2007
Sarah Waterfield
Guy Watson
Harry McPhillimy
Church field
14.6.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Briavels Grove
Mina Road/Watercress Road
Back garden Mina Rd near City
Farm
15.6.2007
16.6.2007
16.6.2007
Sarah Waterfield
Jan Walters
Ruth Williams
2 Hedgehog (rehomed in garden)
3 Marbled white (0830)
Goldfinch (singing), 4 Great tit (all juv), Ant sp. (flying all
day)
Raven, 3 Wood pigeon, 2 Collared dove, 3 Magpie, 2 Jay,
Robin, 4 Chaffinch, 7 Great tit, 5 Blue tit, 3 Blackbird, 3
Chaffinch, 19 Long-tailed tit, 3 Swift, 2 Dunnock, Song
thrush; 2 Grey squirrel; 30 Coreus marginatus (squash
bug, on rhubarb); 3 Large white and 2 Ringlet butterfly; 3
Common lizard,
5 Slow worm; Broad-bodied chaser, 3 Emperor and 3
Common darter dragonflies; 12 Blue-tailed and 2 Common
blue damselfly
House sparrow (on Field maple)
3 Bat (2220-2230, probably Pipistrelle, on cool evening)
2 Badger (night time), Scarlet tiger moth (on Comfrey)
>1 Bat
4 Bat (2200-2220, after damp weather)
Toad (0825, in flowerpot)
3 Marbled white, 2 House sparrow
6 Seven-spot ladybird, 22-spot ladybird; 7 Ringlet, 3
Meadow brown and 2 Marbled white butterfly; Six-spot
burnet moth; Emperor and 3 Common darter dragonflies; 4
Large red, 3 Common blue damselfly and 7 Blue-tailed
damselflies; 2 Swift, 3 Blackbird, 2 Jay, Magpie; lots of
froglets
White plume moth (Pterophorus pentadactyla, indoors)
Song thrush (1700, juv. Being fed by adult)
3 Bat (2205-2210)
Robin, 2 Blackbird, 5 Long-tailed tit, 4 Chaffinch, 3 Blue tit,
3 Great tit; 5 Common lizard, 5 Slow worm, 11 Ringlet,
Common blue, 2 Large white, 3 Marbled white, Comma
and Peacock butterflies
Boiling Wells lane
Church field
Briavels Grove
6.2007
19.6.2007
19.6.2007
Dom Wood
Harry McPhillimy
Guy Watson
Simons Grove
20.6.2007
Jan Walters
Narroways Hill
St Werburghs Park
Over back gardens, St
Werburghs Park
Over back garden, St
Werburghs Park
Over back gardens, St
Werburghs Park
Back garden Mina Rd near City
Farm
Church field
Simons Grove
20.6.2007
21.6.2007
21.6.2007
21.6.2006
Jan Walters
Harry McPhillimy
Mo McManus & David
Wilcox
Mike Shotter
22.6.2007
Harry McPhillimy
22.6.2007
Ruth Williams
23.6.2007
23.6.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Jan Walters
Narroways Road
Briavels Grove
Over back garden, St
Werburghs Park
Simons Grove
25.6.2007
25.6.2007
26.6.2007
Mo McManus
Sarah Waterfield
Harry McPhillimy
26.6.2007
Jan Walters
Bullfinch (2130, m, on seed feeder)
2 Bat (2225-2230)
4 House sparrow (0830)
2 Bat (2250)
16 Swift (flying low), >5 House sparrow
Briavels Grove
Over back garden, St
Werburghs Park
Church field
Over back garden, St
Werburghs Park
Church field
27.6.2007
27.6.2007
Sarah Waterfield
Harry McPhillimy
29.6.2007
29.6.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Harry McPhillimy
30.6.2007
Harry McPhillimy
Previous extra sightings in Narroways region
Species
Locality
Date
Scarlet tiger moth larvae (eating comfrey)
Briavels Grove
2.2007
Hobby? (landed on fence, quietly & skilfully, unlike
Minto Road garden
31.3.2007
usual pigeons. About size of Collared dove but
distinctively bird of prey streamlined shape, had a
white collar and distinctive black ‘tear drop’ marks
under the eye, also a flecked breast – identified by 2
people)
Witnessed by
Guy Watson
Paula Hufton