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🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🛝Family
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
51.56136, -0.08495
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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
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕13th Floor Coffee — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕13th Floor Coffee — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🚲Bike parking☕Café🛝Playground🚻Toilets
🦉Wildlife
Very strong match
Multi-group wildlife — Amphibians, Birds, Mammals; Multi-group wildlife — Amphibians, Birds, Mammals
Free
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Robin, Magpie +50 more · last seen 2026; Birds — Woodpigeon, Robin, Magpie +50 more · last seen 2026
Free
🛝Family friendly
Very strong match
playground, café, toilets
Free
playground, toilets, café
Free
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Strong match
café, toilets
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km45 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
The LineWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Middlesex Street Estate PedwaysWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Bishopsgate pedwaysWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Capital Ring link to Highgate underground stationWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Capital Ring link to Finsbury Park stationWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
242 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Lee Valley VeloPark Road CircuitCycling route▾
Named routeRound tripPrivate
LCNCycling route▾
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Route QCycling route▾
Named routeRef QRegional cycle route
Cycleway 11Cycling route▾
Named routeRef C11Regional cycle route
LCN 7Cycling route▾
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Cycleway 38Cycling route▾
Named routeRef C38Regional cycle route
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Wildlife to spot
133,861 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
133,861 records · National Biodiversity NetworkTufted Duck · Robin · Woodpigeon · Mallard · Magpie +43
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MagpiePica pica
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great TitParus major
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- CootFulica atra
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
Brown Rat · Grey Squirrel
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐸Amphibians3 species
winterspring
2026▾
Common Frog · Common Toad · Smooth Newt
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Common ToadBufo bufo
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Epistrophe eligans · 7-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · Hairy-footed Flower Bee · Meliscaeva auricollis +11
- Epistrophe eligansEpistrophe eligans
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- SyrphusSyrphus
- Hawthorn Shieldbug
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
133,861 records · National Biodiversity NetworkTufted Duck · Robin · Woodpigeon · Mallard · Magpie +43
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MagpiePica pica
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great TitParus major
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- CootFulica atra
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
Brown Rat · Grey Squirrel
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐸Amphibians3 species
winterspring
2026▾
Common Frog · Common Toad · Smooth Newt
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Common ToadBufo bufo
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Epistrophe eligans · 7-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · Hairy-footed Flower Bee · Meliscaeva auricollis +11
- Epistrophe eligansEpistrophe eligans
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- SyrphusSyrphus
- Hawthorn Shieldbug
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale
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