Your Wildlife Sightings
14th April Swallows at Winsbere Dulverton.
13th April Red deer stags being chased by Exmoor ponies on Ilkerton Ridge
13 th April Black caps and Chiff Chaff's Lynmouth
12 th April Jay, Tree creepers ,Common Buzzard at East Lyn Lynmouth
11 th April Golden Plovers at Winsbere Dulverton
9 April - Otter between Watersmeet and Hillsford Bridge
2ND APRIL Cuckoo heard in Bridgewater
29th March Peregrine Near Combe Martin Church
29th March Herd of Red Deer at Ilkerton Ridge near Barbrook
29th March Otter Near Rockford
29th March Otter East Lyn River
24TH March Ring Ouzel-Chaman Barrows
19th March Bracket Fungus East Lyn
19th March Hare Winsford Hill
8th March - Red Deer - Porlock Hill
11th March - Two Iceland Gulls Wimbleball
11th March - Great Grey Shrike Exford
9th March - Skylarks - Porlock
9th March- Tortoishell and Comma butterflies Porlock
8th March - Exmoor Pony Foal Porlock
8th March - Red deer herd Dunkery and Porlock Hill
28th Feb-Six Red Deer Summerhouse Hill
19th Feb - Rock Pippit Lynmouth
14th Feb Shag Lynmouth
29th December
Great Northern Diver Porlock Weir Harbour
20th October
Hen Harrier Cloutsham Gate
19th October
Heron East Lyn
Waxwing Wistlandpound
Woodcock Winsford Hill
Email Us, with your Exmoor wildlife sightings or photos, telling us what you saw, an approximate location and the date your saw it.
Welcome to Exmoor National Park
Situated in the south west of Britain, Exmoor National Park contains an amazing variety of landscapes within its 267 square miles. A unique landscape of moorland, woodland, valleys and farmland, shaped by people and nature over thousands of years. Where high cliffs plunge into the Bristol Channel, and cosy pubs and tearooms offer delicious local produce.
Exmoor’s Biodiversity
Barn Owl
The Barn Owl Tyto alba is one of our best loved native birds, and can be seen on Exmoor hunting its prey of voles and other small mammals over meadows and rough pasture. it needs both good hunting grounds and suitable nest sites, such as old farm buildings to thrive. More on this species from RSPB.
Latest Planning Applications
- Brompton Regis - 6/3/14/107 Wednesday 16 April
- Old Cleeve - 6/26/14/105 Thursday 17 April
- Dulverton - 6/9/14/111 Thursday 17 April
- Luxborough - 6/20/14/102 Wednesday 16 April
- Dunster - WTCA 14/06 Tuesday 15 April
Upcoming Events
- Spring lamb talks 7th Apr 2014
- Dulverton Art Group Spring Exhibition and Sale of Work 13th Apr 2014
- Cadbury Easter egg trail 18th Apr 2014
- Simonsbath Sawmill Open Day 21st Apr 2014
- Microscope Monday 21st Apr 2014
- What's on this week
- What's on this month
Places of Interest
- Lynton
The National Park's main town and service centre with a variety of facilities including plenty of car parking. The buildings are mainly Victorian, of local stone and terracotta roof tiles and a variety of architectural designs, including Swiss-style balconies and carved barge boards. The Lyn and Exmoor Museum has a collection devoted to Exmoor's social history.
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