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| Sites in the London Borough of Hillingdon | ||
| Main Sites | ||
| Bayhurst Wood Country Park (TQ065892)
Copse Wood (TQ085897) Mad Bess Wood (TQ076895) |
Habitat: mature woodland
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Species: All year: Common Woodland species. Summer: Woodcock; Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Chiff-chaff and Willow Warbler. Passage: Hobby; Tree Pipit, Wheater, Whinchat, and Redstart. Winter: Thrushes and Finches. |
| Broadwater GP (TQ044894)
Moorhall GP (TQ044889)
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Habitat: disused gravel with mature surround vegetation | Species: All year: Greylag Summer: most common waterbirds can be found, along with a colony of Grey Herons; Hobby; occasional breeding Little Ringer Plover; Sedge and Reed Warblers, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Chiff-chaff and Willow Warbler. Passage: occasional Red-necked, Black-necked or Slavonian Grebes; ducks such as Garganey (rare), Scaup; the occasional raptor, such as Marsh Harrier, Osprey, Hobby; plus passerines, including Wheater, Whinchat, and the occasional Redstart. Winter: the odd rare Grebe; occasional Bittern, Little Egret (small winter roost), Smew occasionally reaching double figures, Goosander (in small numbers), Ruddy Duck, Scaup and overwintering Chiff-chaff. Rarities: have included Little Egret, Eider and Ring-necked Duck. |
| Ruislip Lido (TQ089891) | Habitat: old reservoir, located within woodland.
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Species: Summer: common waterbirds and Sedge and Reed Warblers, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Chiff-chaff and Willow Warbler. Passage: Wheater, Whinchat, and the occasional Redstart. Winter: increase in waterfowl, the very occasional rare Grebe, Bittern, wild Swan. |
| Yeading Meadows (TQ105835) (website) | Habitat: grassland, river, copse and old infill site.
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Species: Summer: Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiff-chaff and Willow Warbler. Passage: occasional Wheater, Whinchat, and the occasional Redstart. Winter: Short-eared Owl, Long-eared Owl (irregular), Stonechat. Rarities: have included Little Egret. |
| Other Sites | ||
| Gutteridge and Ten Acre Woods (TQ090840) (website) | ||
| Ickenham Marsh (TQ087852) (website) | ||
| Old Park Wood (TQ045914) (website) | ||
| Ruislip Common (TQ085893) | ||
| Springwell Lake and Reedbed (TQ043932) | ||
| Stockley Park (TQ080805) | ||