Wildlife

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:

Kingfisher

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
  • Tawny Owl
  • Kestrel
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Insects

  • Orange Tip
  • Brimstone
  • Speckled Wood
  • Peacock
  • Harlequin Ladybirds
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Aquatic Invertebrates

  • Dark Olive Mayfly
  • Flatworm
  • Medicinal Leech
  • Stonefly
  • Freshwater Shrimp
  • Caddisfly Larvae
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Mammals

  • Mole
  • Fallow Deer 
  • Roe Deer
  • Water Shrew
  • Grey Squirrel
  • Fox
  • Otters

Fish

  • Common Carp
  • Chub
  • Roach
  • Dace
  • Minnow
  • Brown Trout
  • Stone Loach
  • European Eel
  • Perch
  • Stickleback
CLOSE UP OF A FROG FACING CAMERA WITH LARGE MASS OF FROG SPAWN IN THE FORE GROUND.

Amphibians

  • Common Frog
  • Smooth Newt
  • Common Toad
  • Palmate Newt