Wildlife

Our local badgers love to dig in our garden © National Trust

Our local badgers love to dig in our garden

© National Trust

Badgers to birds

Look out for...

  • Clear autumn days at Ickworth © David Tipling

    Kestrels

    We often have nesting pairs in our horse chestnut tree by the ice house.

  • Clear autumn days at Ickworth © Jim Parry

    Woodpeckers

    Green woodpeckers on the grass and Great spotted woodpeckers up in the trees.

  • Peacock and Comma butterflies on Bramble in the Stonehenge Landscape © Lucy Evershed

    Butterflies

    Look out for these species: Comma, Orange-tip, Painted lady, Peacock, Red admiral and Small copper.

Our flower meadow

Enjoy a stroll along the river on your way to Ham and approach the house through our flower meadow. This is an increasingly important habitat for wildflowers, animals, insects and birds.

 

A love and hate relationship...

We don't encourage slugs, but they love it here. Though they do eat young plants faster than we can grow them, they also eat decaying plant material. We love and hate them.

Natural predators

We encourage ladybirds in the garden as the natural predator of garden nuisances like aphids and mites.