Alexandra Palace Farmers Market
Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🦋Insects
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
51.58849, -0.13325
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
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- 🐦63+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Robin and Blackbird
- 🐄Summer visits here combine well with a walk along nearby trails — the animals are most active in the morning.
- 🐾Alexandra Palace Farmers Market on site — a good way to combine wildlife and an animal visit in the same trip
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦63+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Robin and Blackbird
- 🐄Summer visits here combine well with a walk along nearby trails — the animals are most active in the morning.
- 🐾Alexandra Palace Farmers Market on site — a good way to combine wildlife and an animal visit in the same trip
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🅿️Parking· Free🐄Farm visit
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Robin, Blackbird, Magpie +60 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Birds — Robin, Blackbird, Magpie +60 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Harlequin Ladybird, 7-spot Ladybird, Broad-bodied Chaser +102 more · last seen 2026
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km20 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Capital Ring link to Highgate underground stationWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Capital Ring link to Finsbury Park stationWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Pymmes Brook TrailWalking route▾
This is the revised 2018 route, which starts at Hadley Green and finishes at Tottenham Lock, near Tottenham Hale station.
Named routeLocal walking route
New River PathWalking route▾
Named routeRef NRRegional walking route
Capital Ring (Section 11)Walking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
70 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
LCNCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Enfield Chase to Arnos Park GreenwayCycling route▾
Named routePoint-to-pointLocal cycle route
Cycleway 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef C6Regional cycle route
Cycleway 20Cycling route▾
Named routeRef C20Regional cycle route
LCNCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
LCN 7Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 7Local cycle route
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Alexandra Palace Farmers' Market
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33,905 records · National Biodiversity Network
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Wildlife to spot
33,905 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Great Tit · Rock Dove · Great Spotted Woodpecker · Magpie +37
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Great TitParus major
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
🦌Mammals3 species
winterspringautumn
2026▾
Red Fox · Pipistrelle Bat species · Grey Squirrel
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Pipistrelle Bat speciesPipistrellus2025
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
Pond Terrapin
- Pond TerrapinTrachemys scripta
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Harlequin Ladybird · 7-spot Ladybird · Green Shieldbug · Southern Oak Bush-cricket · Kidney-spot Ladybird +25
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina2025
- Southern Oak Bush-cricketMeconema meridionale2025
- Kidney-spot LadybirdChilocorus renipustulatus2025
- Platycheirus scutatus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
33,905 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Great Tit · Rock Dove · Great Spotted Woodpecker · Magpie +37
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Great TitParus major
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
🦌Mammals3 species
winterspringautumn
2026▾
Red Fox · Pipistrelle Bat species · Grey Squirrel
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Pipistrelle Bat speciesPipistrellus2025
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
Pond Terrapin
- Pond TerrapinTrachemys scripta
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Harlequin Ladybird · 7-spot Ladybird · Green Shieldbug · Southern Oak Bush-cricket · Kidney-spot Ladybird +25
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina2025
- Southern Oak Bush-cricketMeconema meridionale2025
- Kidney-spot LadybirdChilocorus renipustulatus2025
- Platycheirus scutatus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Platycheirus scutatus2025
Platycheirus scutatus2025
Common DarterSympetrum striolatum2025Common DarterSympetrum striolatum2025Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2025Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2025Scathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercorariaDark-edged Bee-flyBombylius majorDark-edged Bee-flyBombylius majorEupeodesEupeodesEupeodesEupeodesSuillia variegataSuillia variegataSuillia variegataSuillia variegataStag BeetleLucanus cervusStag BeetleLucanus cervusDorcatomaDorcatomaDorcatomaDorcatomaEristalis tenaxEristalis tenax2025Eristalis tenaxEristalis tenax2025Batman HoverflyMyathropa florea2025Batman HoverflyMyathropa florea2025Epuraea aestivaEpuraea aestiva2025Epuraea aestivaEpuraea aestiva2025Stictopleurus abutilonStictopleurus abutilon2025Stictopleurus abutilonStictopleurus abutilon202510-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata202510-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata2025Rhyparochromus vulgarisRhyparochromus vulgaris2025Rhyparochromus vulgarisRhyparochromus vulgaris2025Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta2025Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta2025Phaonia pallidaPhaonia pallida2025Phaonia pallidaPhaonia pallida2025Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneus2025Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneus2025Vine WeevilOtiorhynchus sulcatus2025Vine WeevilOtiorhynchus sulcatus202514-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctata202514-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctata2025Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2025Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2025Trioza centranthiTrioza centranthi2025Trioza centranthiTrioza centranthi2025Hornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria2025Hornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria2025Dock BugCoreus marginatus2025Dock BugCoreus marginatus2025Southern Green ShieldbugNezara viridula2025Southern Green ShieldbugNezara viridula2025