Doncaster Naturalists' Society

Recording Doncaster wildlife since 1880

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  • Insects
    • Order – Coleoptera – Beetles
    • Order – Diptera – True Flies
    • Order – Hemiptera – Bugs
    • Order – Hymenoptera – Ants, Wasps, Bees
    • Order – Lepidoptera – Butterflies & Moths
    • Order – Mecoptera – Scorpionflies
    • Order – Neuroptera – Lacewings (& Alderflies)
    • Order – Odonata – Dragonflies & Damselflies
    • Order – Orthoptera – Bush-crickets, Crickets & Grasshoppers
  • Vertebrates
    • Order – Amphibians
    • Order – Birds
    • Order – Mammals
    • Order – Reptiles
  • Plants
    • Plants – Dicotyledons
    • Plants – Monocotyledons
    • Plants – Trees
    • Plants – Grasses, Sedges, & Rushes
    • Plants – Gymnosperms
    • Bryophytes (Mosses & Liverworts)
    • Pteridophytes (Ferns, Clubmosses, Horsetails)
  • Fungi
  • Galls
  • Denaby Ings Project

Order – Birds

Birds

Wildfowl (Swans, Geese, Ducks)
Waterbirds (Cormorants, Grebes)
Seabirds (Gannets, Fulmar, Shearwater, Petrels)
Gulls & Terns
Auks ( Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbill)
Waders (Oystercatcher, Avocet, Plovers, Snipe & Woodcock, Sandpipers, ‘Shanks’, Godwits, Curlew.)
Large waterside birds (Bittern, Heron, Egrets, Spoonbill, Crane)
Rails & Crakes
Game Birds (Quail, Pheasants, Partridges, Grouse)
Pigeons and Doves
Birds of Prey (Eagles, Buzzards, Osprey, Harriers, Hawks, Falcons)
Owls & Nightjars
Near-passerines (Kingfisher, Cuckoo, Woodpeckers)
Aerial feeders (Swifts, Swallow, Martins)
Passerines (Song-birds)
   Larks, Pipits and Wagtails
   Starling, Waxwing, Dipper
   Dunnock, Wren
   Thrushes and Chats
   Goldcrest, Warblers
   Flycatchers
   Tits, Nuthatches & Creepers
   Crows, Jay
   Finches, Buntings, Sparrows

Recent Posts

  • Phenology Project 8 March 2021
  • Louise’s video of a winter walk in Glass Park 10 February 2021
  • Welcome to new members, Paul & Ann Davis 14 January 2021
  • Hair Ice 7 January 2021
  • Winter Programme 2020 – 2021 Update 4 December 2020

Slideshow

Hayfield Flats Plantation,
Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), Potteric Carr, Doncaster
Sialis lutaria -  Alder Fly, Bevercotes
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), Grove Park, Doncaster
Bluebell - Hyacinthoides non-scriptus, Kings Wood.
Volucella pellucens, Great Pied Hoverfly, Hartlebury, Common, Worcs.
Damage caused by Tornado 10th March.
Spring Gentian (Gentiana verna), Cow Green Reservoir,  Border of Co Durham / Cumbria (Westmorland).
Leistus spinibarbus, Woodside Nurseries, Austerfield.
Idaea fuscovenosa  - Dwarf Cream Wave - Kirk Smeaton

Gallery

Dasineura pustulans (midge) on Meadowsweet Dasineura pustulans (midge) on Meadowsweet Potteric Carr Dasineura pustulans (midge) on Meadowsweet Cystiphora sonchi ( midge) on Sow Thistle

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