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Fursby Avenue Allotments

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51.61120, -0.19432

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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
🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days

🌤️ Visiting this summer

🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days

Good to know

🐕Dogs welcome

Parking

Best for

4 activities

Wildlife

Very strong match

Multi-group wildlife — Amphibians, Birds, Mammals; Multi-group wildlife — Amphibians, Birds, Mammals

Free

Bird watching

Very strong match

Birds — Robin, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow +69 more · last seen 2026; Birds — Robin, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow +69 more · last seen 2026

Free

Insect spotting

Strong match

Insects — 7-spot Ladybird, Batman Hoverfly, Harlequin Ladybird +20 more · last seen 2026; Insects — 7-spot Ladybird, Batman Hoverfly, Harlequin Ladybird +20 more · last seen 2026

Free

Foraging

Good match

Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic

Varies

Trails nearby

Within roughly 5 km

🚶

Walking

24 signed routes nearby

Signed route nearby

LOOP link to Cockfosters UndergroundWalking route

Named routeRegional walking route

Capital Ring link to Highgate underground stationWalking route

Named routeRegional walking route

Dollis Valley Greenwalk linkWalking route

Named routeRef DVGlinkLocal walking route

London LOOP (Section 16 unsigned alternative)Walking route

Alternative route avoiding the opening road walking

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

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Cycling

29 signed routes nearby

Signed route nearby

LCN 85 linkCycling route

Named routeRef (85)Local cycle route

LCN 88Cycling route

Named routeRef 88Local cycle route

LCN 54Cycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

LCNCycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

LCNCycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

LCN 54Cycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

Wildlife to spot

25,550 records · National Biodiversity Network

Wildlife to spot

25,550 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds46 species

winter

2026

Redwing · Woodpigeon · Great Spotted Woodpecker · Blackbird · Great Tit +41

RedwingTurdus iliacus
WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
BlackbirdTurdus merula
Great TitParus major
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
RobinErithacus rubecula2025
MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
JackdawColoeus monedula2025
DunnockPrunella modularis2025
Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
MagpiePica pica2025
MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
JayGarrulus glandarius2025
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
RookCorvus frugilegus2025
WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
Common GullLarus canus2025
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
NuthatchSitta europaea2025
TealAnas crecca2025
Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2025
Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
GreenfinchChloris chloris
StarlingSturnus vulgaris
Rock DoveColumba livia2025
KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
SiskinSpinus spinus2025
Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025

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Mammals3 species

winterspring

2026

Grey Squirrel · Hazel Dormouse · Red Fox

Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
Red FoxVulpes vulpes

🐝

Insects6 species

springwinter

2026

7-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · Western Conifer Seed Bug · 16-spot Ladybird · Southern Green Shieldbug +1

7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
Western Conifer Seed BugLeptoglossus occidentalis
16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata2025
Southern Green ShieldbugNezara viridula2025
Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

25,550 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds46 species

winter

2026

Redwing · Woodpigeon · Great Spotted Woodpecker · Blackbird · Great Tit +41

RedwingTurdus iliacus
WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
BlackbirdTurdus merula
Great TitParus major
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
RobinErithacus rubecula2025
MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
JackdawColoeus monedula2025
DunnockPrunella modularis2025
Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
MagpiePica pica2025
MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
JayGarrulus glandarius2025
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
RookCorvus frugilegus2025
WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
Common GullLarus canus2025
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
NuthatchSitta europaea2025
TealAnas crecca2025
Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2025
Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
GreenfinchChloris chloris
StarlingSturnus vulgaris
Rock DoveColumba livia2025
KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
SiskinSpinus spinus2025
Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025

🦌

Mammals3 species

winterspring

2026

Grey Squirrel · Hazel Dormouse · Red Fox

Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
Red FoxVulpes vulpes

🐝

Insects6 species

springwinter

2026

7-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · Western Conifer Seed Bug · 16-spot Ladybird · Southern Green Shieldbug +1

7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
Western Conifer Seed BugLeptoglossus occidentalis
16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata2025
Southern Green ShieldbugNezara viridula2025
Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

Photos

📷 N Chadwick · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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