Tranquil woodland in the heart of Skipton

Meet the wildlife

Stand on the bridge and watch the stream or listen to the birdsong

Trees – horse chestnut (conker), lime, ash, sycamore, holly, hawthorn

Stepping-stones and beach for pond dipping

Grasses, mosses, lichen, fungus, ferns, nettles for insects, butterflies and bees

Blackbirds, robin, tits and many more …

With luck you might even see a kingfisher. Look out for the many birdboxes. Bats sometimes fly at dusk too.

You can find in the Wilderness: primroses, celandine, violets, wild garlic, wood anemone and cuckoo pint

Flowers galore in season

You can also see grey squirrels and small rodents. Look up into the canopy and down into the undergrowth.

Dunnock

Juvenile Chaffinch

Blue Tit

Hedgehog

Grey Squirrel

Celandine

Primrose

Wild Garlic

Horse Chestnut

Sycamore

Robin

Chaffinch