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PRIORY PARK ANIMAL TRAIL
Take this booklet with you to find out about all the animals that
live in Priory Park
Find all the posts and take a crayon and make a rubbing of all 10.
(trail starts behind the Beacon)
FROG
Frogs have no necks and cannot turn their heads but their eyes
can view all around them even when the rest of their body is
underwater.
Common Frogs are amphibians, coming to Priory Lake to breed
during the spring and spending much of the rest of the year
feeding on dry land in our woodland.
FROG
HONEY BEE
Honey Bees are well-known as hive bees but many form colonies
in the wild in wooded areas.
Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and
vegetables. This means that they help other plants grow by
transferring pollen between plants!
HONEY BEE
WOOD MOUSE
The wood mouse is also known as the long-tailed field mouse.
You are lucky if you see one as they are nocturnal which means
they sleep during the day and awake at night.
They like to live and hide in the woodland. They eat seeds, fruits,
buds & other vegetation
WOOD MOUSE
MALLARD DUCK
Our lake is home to lots of Mallard ducks. The male ducks are easy
to spot with their dark green heads and yellow bills. The female is
mainly brown.
The ducks like to eat seeds, acorns and berries, plants, insects and
shellfish.
MALLARD DUCK
MUTE SWAN
Our lake is home to a pair of mute swan. They are easy to spot
with their white feathers, long S-shaped neck and orange bill with
black at the base of it.
Swans like to eat Water plants, insects and snails. The Queen
owns all the mute swans in the UK
MUTE SWAN
GRASS SNAKE
The grass snake is the largest species of British snake, and is
identified by its olive green body and darkish spots or streaks on
its sides. They are not venomous and cannot hurt you. The grass
snake likes to live in woodlands, wet heathlands and parks.
The grass snake mainly eats frogs, toads and newts.
GRASS SNAKE
RABBIT
A female rabbit is called a doe and a male rabbit is called a buck. A
young rabbit is called a kit (or kitten).
Rabbits live in groups and in the park they live underground in
burrows. A group of burrows is known as a warren.
Rabbits are herbivores (plant eaters) and really enjoy Easter.
RABBIT
BAT
Priory Park is home to least six different types of bat including the
comparatively rare Serotine Bat. Bats are flying mammals.
Bats are nocturnal which means they sleep all day and come out at
dusk to hunt for food. You can see them on the lake and high up in
the trees.
BAT
ROE DEER
Roe Deer live in the woodland of Priory Park. They are reddish
brown in colour.
They like to eat ground-hugging plants such as heather and grass,
fresh shoots of holly, ivy, bramble bushes and low hanging
branches of trees.
ROE DEER
GREY SQUIRRELS
The park is home to lots of Grey squirrels who love eating acorns
and raiding the park litter bins. They are easy to spot running up
trees and leaping around the woodland.
Squirrels eat nuts, fruits, seeds, tree bark, roots, insects
and caterpillars. .
A squirrel’s four front teeth never stop growing.
GREY SQUIRRELS