Badgers
Badgers are short-legged, heavy-set creatures with a black and white striped fur coats and are part of the weasel family.
Badgers are carnivores and catch most of their food by digging. They can tunnel after ground-dwelling rodents with amazing speed.
Badgers often live in groups called Setts and can be found in woods and hedgerows.
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Deer
Deer are medium sized animals with long thin legs. Males are called bucks and have flattened antlers but females called does do not have antlers. There are many species of Deer around the world but the 2 most common in the UK are Fallow Deer and Red Deer.
Deer live in forests and thickets
Deer are vegetarian and live on a variety of grass, young shoots, leaves, bark, heather, sweet chestnuts and acorns.
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Fox
The Fox is a very adaptable creature and often lives where food can be found easily. Their typical diet consists of field voles, birds, rabbits, insects, earthworms, grasshoppers, beetles, blackberries, plums, and carrion.
Foxes live both in urban and rural areas because of their ability to survive on a variety of foods. However, a Fox’s life expectancy is very short living only for 12-18 months in urban areas, (over half killed on the roads) and rarely beyond 3 years in rural areas.
The Fox is famous for its bushy tail, large ears and narrow muzzle.
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Rabbit
Rabbits have long ears, which can be more than 10 cm long and they have large, powerful hind legs.
Rabbits live in groups in underground burrows, or rabbit holes. A group of burrows is called a warren. Rabbits most commonly live in meadows, woods, forests, thickets, and grasslands.
Rabbits are herbivores who feed by grazing on grass, hay, and leafy weeds.
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Grey Squirrel
Grey Squirrels were introduced into this country from North America. Within 100 years they had wiped out the native red squirrel in all but the northern-most parts of the country.
Squirrels live in woodland, urban parks and gardens and build Dreys in the spring.
A Squirrel's diet consist of buds and shoots of all trees, nuts, seeds, fruit, insects and occasionally birds eggs. They will sit up and feed with food in hands.
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