Tawd Valley Park is a haven for a wide variety of wildlife in the heart of Skelmersdale. Birds of prey can often be seen soaring above the meadows and kingfishers, dippers and wagtails patrolling the river banks.

Here’s a list of the wildlife spotted so far.  If you come across anything we can add to the list, do let us know:

Birds

• Long-Tailed Tit
• Kingfisher
• Mallard
• Woodpigeon
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Robin
• Chaffinch
• Moorhen
• Jay
• Grey Wagtail
• Coal Tit
• Blue Tit
• Great Tit
• Dipper
• Chiffchaff
• Magpie
• Nuthatch
• Blackcap
• Wren
• Blackbird
• Song Thrush
• Carrion Crow
• Whitethroat
• Buzzard

Insect – butterfly

• Orange Tip
• Brimstone
• Speckled Wood

Insect – beetle

• Harlequin Ladybird

Mammal

• Mole
• Deer

Amphibian

• Common Frog