Northamptonshire - Fineshade Wood
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This handsome wood is part of Rockingham Forest that covers 200 square miles from Stamford down to Kettering. As you enter the Fineshade wood car park, just off the A43 near Duddington, a sign proudly announces “This is red kite country”. Red kites are elegant birds of prey and rather striking because of their chestnut red plumage with white spots under their wings and a forked tail. They gather in the afternoons before roosting in large numbers, reminiscent of vultures soaring over the Serengeti.
There’s a wildlife hide that looks out over bird feeders and a small lake giving you great views of a constant stream of birds from woodpeckers, tits and siskins to the exotic crossbill the parrot of the pine forest. Squirrels constantly poach food from the birds, even chasing off pheasants on occasion.
HOW TO GET TO FINESHADE WOOD
Fineshade is signposted from the A43, 9 miles northeast of Corby, and 6 miles southwest of Stamford. The postcode for SatNavs & Route Finders is NN17 3BB.
WILDLIFE AT FINESHADE WOOD
MAMMALS
Common shrew, pygmy shrew, bank vole, short-tailed vole, stoat and weasel make up the smaller mammals, together with 2 species of pipistrelle bat, brown long-eared and noctule bats. There are also muntjac and fallow deer. Badger, fox, hare, rabbit, otter, dormouse, wood mouse.
BIRDS
Fineshade wood is great for raptors including red kite, buzzard, sparrowhawk, kestrel, hobby, goshawk, tawny owl, long-eared owl, barn owl.
You can also see nuthatch, long-tailed tit, marsh tit, willow tit, coal tit, blue tit, great tit, siskin, woodcock, redpoll, goldcrest, hawfinch occasionally, treecreeper, chiff chaff, willow warbler, grasshopper warbler, whitethroat, blackcap, garden warbler, crossbill, ....the list is endless!
INSECTS AND REPTILES
Adder, grass snake, common lizard, slow worm, 3 species of newt, toad and frog make their homes here. As for butterflies, the rare purple hairstreak, white-letter hairstreak, green hairstreak, grizzled, dingy, large, small and Essex skippers are all there along with the white admiral, common blue and brown argus.
There’s a wildlife hide that looks out over bird feeders and a small lake giving you great views of a constant stream of birds from woodpeckers, tits and siskins to the exotic crossbill the parrot of the pine forest. Squirrels constantly poach food from the birds, even chasing off pheasants on occasion.
HOW TO GET TO FINESHADE WOOD
Fineshade is signposted from the A43, 9 miles northeast of Corby, and 6 miles southwest of Stamford. The postcode for SatNavs & Route Finders is NN17 3BB.
WILDLIFE AT FINESHADE WOOD
MAMMALS
Common shrew, pygmy shrew, bank vole, short-tailed vole, stoat and weasel make up the smaller mammals, together with 2 species of pipistrelle bat, brown long-eared and noctule bats. There are also muntjac and fallow deer. Badger, fox, hare, rabbit, otter, dormouse, wood mouse.
BIRDS
Fineshade wood is great for raptors including red kite, buzzard, sparrowhawk, kestrel, hobby, goshawk, tawny owl, long-eared owl, barn owl.
You can also see nuthatch, long-tailed tit, marsh tit, willow tit, coal tit, blue tit, great tit, siskin, woodcock, redpoll, goldcrest, hawfinch occasionally, treecreeper, chiff chaff, willow warbler, grasshopper warbler, whitethroat, blackcap, garden warbler, crossbill, ....the list is endless!
INSECTS AND REPTILES
Adder, grass snake, common lizard, slow worm, 3 species of newt, toad and frog make their homes here. As for butterflies, the rare purple hairstreak, white-letter hairstreak, green hairstreak, grizzled, dingy, large, small and Essex skippers are all there along with the white admiral, common blue and brown argus.
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