Wildlife at Burrs

Burrs Country Park has a variety of wildlife habitats including woodland, open grassland, wetland areas, ponds and waterways.

The woodland areas support a wide variety of resident birds such as finches, tits, blackbird, jay and robin and in the winter numbers are swelled by visitors including redwings and fieldfares.

The larger ponds attract mute swans, canada geese, moorhens and mallard whilst the river is a great place to spot a kingfisher, and goosanders are regular visitors. In the summer swallows, swifts and sand martins can be seen hawking for insects over the water.

Small mammals including water voles, Pipstrelle and Daubentons bats, stoats and weasels are present but are perhaps harder to spot.

The smaller ponds on the site provide habitats for a range of invertebrates including dragonflies and damselflies, newts, frogs and toads.

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