Sites in the London Borough of Hillingdon
Main Sites
Bayhurst Wood Country Park  (TQ065892)

Copse Wood  (TQ085897)

Mad Bess Wood  (TQ076895)

Park Wood           (TQ095890) (website)

 
Habitat: mature woodland

 

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)

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

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)

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