The reserve is blessed with a wide range of bird life with one local ‘Twitcher’ recording over 80 separate species in 2019

Walking through the woodland, it is possible to see or hear a greater spotted woodpecker, tree creeper, goldcrest, wren, black bird, song and mistle thrushes, robin, long tailed tit, chaffinch, blue tit, great tit, coal tit, tawny owl, sparrow hawk, buzzard, nuthatch and ring necked parakeet!

If you meander around the lodges – goosander, mute swan, moorhen, coot, grey heron, cormorant, mallard, tufted duck, Canada goose, great crested grebe, grey wagtail, dipper swallows and kingfisher.

Moths/butterflies include – orange tip, common white, common skipper, spotted wood, brimstone, meadow brown, ringlet, peacock, red admiral, cinnabar moth, 5 spot burnet moth frequent around the old tip grassland.

Fishing at the Lodges is managed by a local company Abosolute Angling and the three fishing lodges are well stocked with carp and bream