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🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🦋Insects
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome36 ha
Getting here
51.64602, -0.31162
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦87+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Robin
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 🅿️Aldenham Country Park parking 299m away — 10 car parks within reach
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦87+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Robin
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 🅿️Aldenham Country Park parking 299m away — 10 car parks within reach
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Blue Tit, Robin, Mallard +84 more · last seen 2026; Reservoir — wildfowl and wading birds
Free
Birds — Blue Tit, Robin, Mallard +84 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — 22-spot Ladybird, 7-spot Ladybird, Southern Oak Bush-cricket +53 more · last seen 2026
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
〰Waterside walks
Good match
Reservoir — waterside public access; parking
Varies
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km30 signed routes nearby · 28 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Harrow Weald Common Nature TrailWalking route▾
Short walk. Orange waymarking
http://www.harrowncf.org/Harrow_Weald_Nature_Trail.pdf
Named routeLocal walking route
LOOP link to Elstree & Borehamwood stationWalking route▾
Named routePoint-to-pointRegional walking route
Dollis Valley Greenwalk linkWalking route▾
Named routeRef DVGlinkLocal walking route
LOOP link to Stanmore UndergroundWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Watling Chase Timberland TrailWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Reservoir Roadpublic footpath · 97 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 97 mSurface asphaltPath type: service
25 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Shenley CircuitCycling route▾
Named routeRound tripLocal cycle route
Wembley to Harrow Weald CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeRegional cycle route
LCN 89Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 89Local cycle route
Belmont TrailCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
LCN 88Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 88Local cycle route
LCN+ link 87Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 87Local cycle route
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
41,728 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
41,728 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMute Swan · Woodpigeon · Tufted Duck · Robin · Jackdaw +45
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Great TitParus major2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
🦌Mammals3 species
autumnwinter
2025▾
Red Fox · Grey Squirrel · Muntjac
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
22-spot Ladybird · 7-spot Ladybird · Southern Oak Bush-cricket · Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata · Common Earwig +36
- 22-spot LadybirdPsyllobora vigintiduopunctata2025
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata2025
- Southern Oak Bush-cricketMeconema meridionale2025
- Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineataSigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata2025
- Common EarwigForficula auricularia/dentata agg.2025
Pedunculate Oak
- Pedunculate OakQuercus robur
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
41,728 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMute Swan · Woodpigeon · Tufted Duck · Robin · Jackdaw +45
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Great TitParus major2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
🦌Mammals3 species
autumnwinter
2025▾
Red Fox · Grey Squirrel · Muntjac
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
22-spot Ladybird · 7-spot Ladybird · Southern Oak Bush-cricket · Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata · Common Earwig +36
- 22-spot LadybirdPsyllobora vigintiduopunctata2025
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata2025
- Southern Oak Bush-cricketMeconema meridionale2025
- Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineataSigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata2025
- Common EarwigForficula auricularia/dentata agg.2025
Pedunculate Oak
- Pedunculate OakQuercus robur
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
