Doncaster Naturalists' Society

Recording Doncaster wildlife since 1880

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  • Insects
    • Order – Coleoptera – Beetles
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    • Order – Mecoptera – Scorpionflies
    • Order – Neuroptera – Lacewings (& Alderflies)
    • Order – Odonata – Dragonflies & Damselflies
    • Order – Orthoptera – Bush-crickets, Crickets & Grasshoppers
    • Order – Julida – Millipedes
  • 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

  • Next Meeting – Friday 27th May to Thorne Moors 25 May 2022
  • Next Meeting – Monday 16 May 2022, a visit to the Garganey Trust Wetlands Reserve 15 May 2022
  • Next Meeting – Saturday 14th May 2022 to Lindrick Common 12 May 2022
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 4th May 2022 an evening walk around Brockadale. 3 May 2022
  • Next Meeting – Saturday 30rh April 2022 to Melton Wood 28 April 2022

Slideshow

Pansy
Garden View
No-10
Lady’'s Smock (Cardamine pratensis), Old Moor.
Rhytidiadelphus loreus - Little Shaggy-moss, Lindholme.
Phyllobius pomaceus -  Nettle Weevil, Anston Stones Wood
Pendulous sedge (Carex pendula), Old Moor
Celastrina argiolus - Holly Blue , Woodside Nurseries, Austerfield.
Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis), Anston.
Piezodorus lituratus - Gorse Shieldbug, Woodside Nurseries, Austerfield.

Gallery

The new boxes The new boxes are the four sets in the lower part of the window New boxes showing inspection doors and nesting platform 'concaves' New boxes showing entrance holes between the church window louvres

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