Copston Spinney - Broadleaved woodland
1 ha
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
52.49558, -1.30855
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- ⛺Camping available here — summer nights at this site are worth planning around
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- ⛺Camping available here — summer nights at this site are worth planning around
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
🌲Forest walks
Moderate match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km26 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
ACW Circular Walk 13Walking route▾
Named routeRef C13Listed length 12 kmLocal walking route
ACW Circular Walk 13A (short-cut for C13)Walking route▾
Named routeRef C13ALocal walking route
ACW Circular Walk 13C (an even shorter [4 mile total] short-cut route than route A, devised for use on the WWF 1-Jun-2006 event)Walking route▾
Named routeRef C13CLocal walking route
Bridleway V53Walking route▾
Named routeRef V53
Bridleway V29Walking route▾
Named routeRef V29
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Coombe Country Park mountain bike routeMountain bike route▾
Named routeRound trip
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Wildlife to spot
4,768 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
4,768 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds53 species
springsummer
2026▾
Wigeon · Swallow · Hawfinch · Woodpigeon · Black Redstart +48
- WigeonMareca penelope2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros2022
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- PintailAnas acuta2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2024
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus2023
- PochardAythya ferina2022
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis2024
- MerlinFalco columbarius2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- SwiftApus apus2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2024
- Rock DoveColumba livia2024
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava2024
- RavenCorvus corax2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus2023
- Common GullLarus canus2023
🦌Mammals4 species
winterspringsummer
2026▾
Badger · Water Vole · Rabbit · Hedgehog
- BadgerMeles meles2024
- Water VoleArvicola amphibius2024
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Pool Frog
- Pool FrogPelophylax lessonae
December Moth · Black Rustic · Large Yellow Underwing · Splayed Deerfly · Feathered Thorn +36
- December MothPoecilocampa populi2022
- Black RusticAporophyla nigra2022
- Large Yellow UnderwingNoctua pronuba2022
- Splayed DeerflyChrysops caecutiens
- Feathered ThornColotois pennaria2022
- Juniper CarpetThera juniperata
Ganoderma
Gorse · Blackthorn · Chicory
- GorseUlex europaeus
- BlackthornPrunus spinosa2024
- ChicoryCichorium intybus2023
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
4,768 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds53 species
springsummer
2026▾
Wigeon · Swallow · Hawfinch · Woodpigeon · Black Redstart +48
- WigeonMareca penelope2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros2022
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- PintailAnas acuta2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2024
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus2023
- PochardAythya ferina2022
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis2024
- MerlinFalco columbarius2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- SwiftApus apus2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2024
- Rock DoveColumba livia2024
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava2024
- RavenCorvus corax2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus2023
- Common GullLarus canus2023
🦌Mammals4 species
winterspringsummer
2026▾
Badger · Water Vole · Rabbit · Hedgehog
- BadgerMeles meles2024
- Water VoleArvicola amphibius2024
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Pool Frog
- Pool FrogPelophylax lessonae
December Moth · Black Rustic · Large Yellow Underwing · Splayed Deerfly · Feathered Thorn +36
- December MothPoecilocampa populi2022
- Black RusticAporophyla nigra2022
- Large Yellow UnderwingNoctua pronuba2022
- Splayed DeerflyChrysops caecutiens
- Feathered ThornColotois pennaria2022
- Juniper CarpetThera juniperata
Ganoderma
Gorse · Blackthorn · Chicory
- GorseUlex europaeus
- BlackthornPrunus spinosa2024
- ChicoryCichorium intybus2023
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2022
2022
Lunar UnderwingAnchoscelis lunosa2022Lunar UnderwingAnchoscelis lunosa2022Lesser Yellow UnderwingNoctua comes2022Lesser Yellow UnderwingNoctua comes2022Beaded ChestnutAgrochola lychnidis2022Beaded ChestnutAgrochola lychnidis2022Corizus hyoscyamiCorizus hyoscyamiCorizus hyoscyamiCorizus hyoscyamiLeopard MothZeuzera pyrinaLeopard MothZeuzera pyrinaHornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria2023Hornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria2023Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2023Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2023Light Brown Apple MothEpiphyas postvittana2022Light Brown Apple MothEpiphyas postvittana2022Dusky ThornEnnomos fuscantaria2022Dusky ThornEnnomos fuscantaria2022ChestnutConistra vaccinii2022ChestnutConistra vaccinii2022Twenty-plume MothAlucita hexadactyla2022Twenty-plume MothAlucita hexadactyla2022Angle ShadesPhlogophora meticulosa2022Angle ShadesPhlogophora meticulosa2022Red-green CarpetChloroclysta siterata2022Red-green CarpetChloroclysta siterata2022Gold TriangleHypsopygia costalis2022Gold TriangleHypsopygia costalis2022Setaceous Hebrew CharacterXestia c-nigrum2022Setaceous Hebrew CharacterXestia c-nigrum2022Plain Elm DotStigmella viscerella2022Plain Elm DotStigmella viscerella2022Blue-shot DotStigmella plagicolella2022Blue-shot DotStigmella plagicolella2022Barred Fruit-tree DotEctoedemia atricollis2022Barred Fruit-tree DotEctoedemia atricollis2022Cherry Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter cerasicolella2022Cherry Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter cerasicolella2022Common Thorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter oxyacanthae2022Common Thorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter oxyacanthae2022Beautiful Elm DotStigmella lemniscella2022Beautiful Elm DotStigmella lemniscella2022Horse-Chestnut Leaf-minerCameraria ohridella2022Horse-Chestnut Leaf-minerCameraria ohridella2022Maple DotStigmella aceris2022Maple DotStigmella aceris2022Blackthorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter spinicolella2022Blackthorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter spinicolella2022Least Hawthorn DotStigmella perpygmaeella2022Least Hawthorn DotStigmella perpygmaeella2022Apple Leaf MinerLyonetia clerkella2022Apple Leaf MinerLyonetia clerkella2022Bramble Blotch-minerCoptotriche marginea2022Bramble Blotch-minerCoptotriche marginea2022Hawthorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter corylifoliella2022Hawthorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter corylifoliella2022Golden DotStigmella aurella2022Golden DotStigmella aurella2022Hawthorn ParornixParornix anglicella2022Hawthorn ParornixParornix anglicella2022Green-brindled CrescentAllophyes oxyacanthae2022Green-brindled CrescentAllophyes oxyacanthae2022Large WainscotRhizedra lutosa2022Large WainscotRhizedra lutosa2022Shuttle-shaped DartAgrotis puta2022Shuttle-shaped DartAgrotis puta2022Red UnderwingCatocala nupta2022Red UnderwingCatocala nupta2022Garden CarpetXanthorhoe fluctuata2022Garden CarpetXanthorhoe fluctuata2022