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Ready to get detecting?

Keep your eyes peeled for signs
of autumn

Look out
Try sitting super still and keeping
quiet – what can you spot?

Ivy
Ivy flowers provide
Galls valuable late nectar for
Look out for knopper galls, butterflies and bees. Harvestmen
Butterflies spangle galls, marble galls Spot these arachnids on
Red admiral, speckled wood and cola nut galls. oak bark (and sometimes in
and brimstone butterflies still your home!).
flutter during autumn.

Mushrooms
How many
different types of

Astounding
mushroom can
you find?

Autumn! Badgers
Keep your eyes peeled for old
bedding left outside the sett.

Skeletons
Spotted any delicate
leaf skeletons on the
woodland floor?

Birds
Find them flocking around Webs
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berry-laden trees, and Keep your eyes peeled adven eep
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feasting on the fruit. for spider webs

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glistening in morning
dew or frost. Owls
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calling ‘twit twoo’ to each
other during the evenings?
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Squirrels Join t
During autumn, squirrels are busy
gathering (or caching) nuts and seeds
o day!
such as acorns.

Did you find them all?

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