We are half way through National Mammal Week! Who knew?
We have twenty eight mammals on our species lists:
seven rodents;
common shrew 
field vole 
wood mouse 
brown rat 
grey squirrel 
pygmy shrew 
water vole
four mustelids;
otter 
badger 
weasel 
stoat
two cervids;
roe 
muntjac
two leporids;
rabbit 
hare
a canid, an erinaceidae;
fox 
hedgehog
and eleven of Britain’s eighteen species of bats.
Header picture: Roe buck by DKG
Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 
An impressive collection!
It is! The park offers a wide range of habitats, a fair few of which are listed as priorities under the UK BAP. The thing that people don’t seem to realise is that this protected habitat doesn’t end at the Lambrok but runs up the hill toward Church Lane through the fields where they are planning to build houses.
There are three deer that hide up in the bushes in that field.