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Filby Community Orchard Species List

TG465129 for 2008

BIRDS

  • white stork
  • egyptian goose
  • sparrow hawk
  • wood pigeon
  • turtle dove
  • swift
  • great spotted woodpecker
  • swallow
  • housemartin
  • pied wagtail
  • jay
  • jackdaw
  • dunnock
  • blackcap
  • lesser whitethroat
  • chill chaff
  • robin
  • blackbird
  • song thrush
  • great tit
  • long tailed tit
  • chaffinch
  • goldfinch

PLANTS

  • nettle
  • meadow buttercup
  • alexanders
  • scarlet pimpernel
  • common comfrey
  • field forget-me-not
  • ground ivy
  • red dead nettle
  • balm

MAMMALS

  • rabbit

REPTILES

  • grass snake

BEES

  • Bombus. Lapidarius
  • B. Pratorum
  • B. Terrestris
  • B. Terrestris/Lucorum worker bees
  • B. Lucorum
  • B. Pascuorum (Common Carder-bee)
bpratBombus Pratorum
Bombus Pratorum, Early Bumble-bee, enjoying the common comfrey in the orchard
bpascBombus Pascuorum
Bombus Pascuorum, Common Carder-bee, also enjoying the common comfrey in the orchard

BUTTERFLIES

  • orange tip
  • holly blue
  • small tortoiseshell
  • peacock
  • speckled wood
tortSmall Tortoiseshell

OTHER INSECTS

  • ground beetle
  • seven spot ladybird

List compiled by Joan and Ken Saul

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Filby Flyer

The Filby Flyer is delivered monthly to every home in the village. To see the current version, and past copies, please click on the link above.

Filby Calendar 2008

Only one or two copies of the Filby Calendar for 2008 remain.

Profits have been donated to the fund for the new village hall.

Next year's calendar, "Filby Then & Now", is already being compiled.

For enquiries and orders send us an email at the address below.

F.E.P.O.W. Memorial Bed

New for 2008

The Far Eastern Prisoners of War Memorial Bed is our recognition of the deprivations they suffered.

Filby Community Orchard

New for 2008

Alright; so it's only 21, we planted 50% more than we initially planned, one year old maiden trees at the moment but it is a start.

Filby: Local Roots

New for 2008

Bringing together Filby's past and present.