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As the farm changes thoughout the year so does it's inhabitants. Here is a list of what you might see at the moment in and around Peldon Hall Farm:

Spring (Mar/Apr/May)

Mar

Mad march hares
The first migrants including
Wheatear, chiffchaff/sand martins/swallows/house martins
Birds:Common buzzard – displaying over woodland & farmland
Sparrowhawks – setting up territories
Frogs & toads Spawn 
Adders will emerge from hibernation
Brimstone & comma butterflies
Plants:Lesser celandines/daffodils/primroses/lords and ladies

Apr

Baby badgers
Birds: Cuckoos/possibly the first nightingales at the beginning of Apr/song thrush/skylarks/yellow wagtails/reed warblers/sedge warblers/whitethroat/lesser whitethroat
Newts
Orange tip butterflies
Bluebells – at their peak at the end of April/cowslips
Blossoming blackthorn

May

Mating hedgehogs
Singing nightingales
Swifts/blackcap/turtle doves
Hawthorn in bloom
Wild pansy/early orchids such as Early purple orchid (roadsides & meadows)/flowering gorse
Horse chestnut flowers will be out/oaks will produce long catkins (these are the males)

Summer (June/July/Aug)

June

Fox cubs
Terns – common & black
Froglets, toadlets & newt tadpoles
Common blue/Speckled wood butterflies/cinnabar moth
Grasses will flower
Common Spotted orchid/Bee orchid
Bats

July

Bats
Young birds of prey & other birds
Common gorse – seed pod crackling

Aug

Returning migrants including waders & ducks
Swifts leave
Swallows & martins leave later in the month
Dragonflies & damselflies

Autumn (Sept/Oct/Nov)

Sept

Invertebrates – Dark bush cricket
Craneflies
Humming bird hawkmoth
Berries
Spindle/rosehips/blackberries

Oct

Fungi
Leaves changing colour
Tawny owls hooting, getting territorial
Spider webs become more visible due to the autumn mists
Galls – including spangle gall, marble gall, artichoke gall, all found on oak trees and contain a tiny grub of the gall wasp

Nov

Ivy in flower
Waders
Redwings & fieldfares
Goldfinches on teasel mixed with linnets
Siskins & redpolls