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MINTING, GAUTBY & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY

Local Fauna and Flora

  • Red Admiral
  • Peacock
  • Comma
  • Small Tortoiseshell
  • Mint Moth
  • ? moth
  • Cinnamon Bug
  • ? Moth
  • Intoxicated Red Admiral
  • Holly Blue
  • Shield Bug
  • Hornet
  • Large Yellow Underwing
  • The Painted Lady
  • Brimstone
  • MINTING, GAUTBY & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY Local Fauna and Flora
  • Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar
  • Small Copper
  • A Painted Lady
  • Hummingbird Hawkmoth
  • MINTING, GAUTBY & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY Local Fauna and Flora
  • Small Copper
  • MINTING, GAUTBY & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY Local Fauna and Flora
  • MINTING, GAUTBY & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY Local Fauna and Flora
  • MINTING, GAUTBY & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY Local Fauna and Flora
  • MINTING, GAUTBY & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY Local Fauna and Flora
  • Male Common Swift Moth
  • MINTING, GAUTBY & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY Local Fauna and Flora
  • Silvery Moth
  • Vapourer Moth Caterpillar

Despite being such an intensively-farmed landscape and with such blisteringly hot and very dry summers, wildlife has managed to keep going.  Like most of the country we have very few hedgehogs, although some are still thriving at Top Minting.

In over 20 years here, we have noticed a massive increase in Common Buzzard and Red Kite sitings and using the Merlin App in the back garden, have compiled a list of bird species identified in Gautby from their bird song since June 2026:

  1. Black cap
  2. Robin
  3. Skylark
  4. Wood pigeon
  5. House sparrow
  6. Blackbird
  7. Jackdaw
  8. Rook
  9. Wren
  10. Dunnock
  11. Blue tit
  12. Common wood pigeon
  13. Common chaffinch
  14. Common whitethroat
  15. Carrion Crow
  16. Greenfinch 
  17. Curlew
  18. Great tit
  19. Common linnet
  20. Swallow
  21. Magpie 
  22. Pied wagtail
  23. Goldfinch
  24. Stock dove 
  25. Song thrush
  26. Bullfinch
  27. Kestrel
  28. Collared Dove
  29. Starling
  30. Green woodpecker
  31. Housemartin 
  32. Greylag goose
  33. Red kite
  34. Willow Warbler
  35. Common buzzard 
  36. Osprey (visual sighting too)
  37. Oyster catcher (visual sighting too)
  38. Tawny Owl