Making Tracks

Brown Hare and Rabbit live at the edges of Clash Wood. Their forms and burrows are found just inside the tree cover from where they make forays into adjacent meadows whenever the coast is clear. Wood Mouse and Field Vole also make their homes in these shady banks.

Overhead Scots Pine, Spruce and Larch provide food for a number of woodland residents. Red Squirrel, Crossbill, Siskin and Woodpecker all find ready meals in cones and seeds, the discarded remains of which can be seen on the ground throughout the wood. Close by Coal Tit, Long Tailed Tit and Goldcrest may be spotted hunting for insects in the canopy. The forest trees also provide the platform for many of these birds and beasts to build homes safely out of reach of terrestrial predators.

Down at ground level Roe Deer have divided the wood into territories. The boundaries of these are especially conspicuous near the top of the wood where Buck have frayed the branches of saplings during the rut.

Come and discover the life and times of the inhabitants of Clash Wood.