There is a badger sett in the park, hidden away in the boundary hedges.
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Burrowers: water voles
The third, and last, of the short videos about the mammals that live underneath the park’s green fields:
The park’s grass eaters
Grass is very hard to digest and most of the animals that eat it have evolved complicated digestive systems to deal with it.
Continue readingA fascinating fact about foxes
Foxes have scent glands on their feet to mark well-used trails so they can follow them easily at night.
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Fox
January is mid-mating season for foxes.
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There are rabbits in the park.
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Fox
Vulpes vulpes, Britain’s only species of fox; in fact Britain’s only native member of the Canidae family.
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Some of the larger mammals on our species list are just passing through.
Ten water vole facts
Here are some fascinating facts about water voles:
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Ten numerical facts about bats:
Continue reading “Bat numbers”Pygmy shrew
The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat but the Eurasian pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus), a park resident, comes a close second.
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Where are Southwick Country Park’s bats?
By Ali Rasey
Some of you have been on our bat walks over the last few years. We have heard (using bat detectors) and seen many different species of bats, including noctules, serotines, pipistrelles, Myotis species, and brown long-eared bats. There is also a record of a greater horseshoe bat (very exciting) – but we haven’t heard or seen that on our bat walks. The best time for us to see/hear bats I think is in August and September; at this time juveniles as well as the adults are flying, and sunset is earlier so the bats are out earlier in the evening.
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Badger
There is a badger sett in the park, hidden away in the boundary hedges.
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