Wildlife gallery

With a variety of common names (Chalk, Lesser and Slender) this Knapweed is usually in flower from June into September but there was still some in flower on the Meadow into November (photo by Elizabeth Dack)

Another late flowering plant on the Meadow (photo by Elizabeth Dack)

Our patch of sown Mallow and Phacelia plants was still providing colour and nectar late into the year (photo by Elizabeth Dack)

Autumn is the time to look for the wonderful shapes and colours of fungi. This species, Bulgaria inquinans, commonly known as Black Bulgar or Batchelor Buttons is found on fallen wood (photo by Elizabeth Dack)

Coprinus comatus is known as the Shaggy inkcap, Lawyer's wig, or Shaggy mane. A common fungus that often appears in grassland. It emerges as a shaggy cylinder like this but after opening soon dissolves into an inky black liquid as shown in another photo earlier in this gallery (photo by Elizabeth Dack)

This Silverleaf Fungus was found on the logs in the bug hotel but it can be found as a leaf disease, a crust and as brackets (photo by Elizabeth Dack)

Often found sunbathing (this one was taking a break on one of our posters), the Noon Fly lays it's eggs in cow pats where it's young then feed off the larvae of other flies (photo by Elizabeth Dack)

Moths can be found in all months of the year. There are three separate species collectively referred to as "November Moth" as they can't easily be separated. The November Moths fly from late September into November (photo by Dave Jones)

One of several butterfly species that appeared in much higher numbers on the Meadow in 2023 with 12 been seen on one visit (photo by Dave Jones)