The  Lovrin Equine Ltd  pastures are literally alive with the comings and goings of the resident and visiting wildlife, as are the skies above with the incoming and outgoing flights of the local bird population;

The  Lovrin Equine Ltd paddocks see winter flocks of starlings beyond counting, and small flocks of 30 to 50 yellowhammers in spring and summer, each in their turn systematically grazing the paddocks alongside cattle and horses. Each spring the swallows return and swoop low in formation, whistling as they perform their aerial acrobatics down along and around the grass fields, and often by sixes or eights, snatching flies and other insects hovering over the grasses. Skylarks have been a regular and welcome feature of the Lovrin pastures in recent times, but have not been with us since 2009 when last they hung in the sky over our pastures and regaled us with their melodious summer anthems.



The less common and occassional visitors to the  Lovrin  site in recent times have included a pair of gold finch, a redwing and a little owl. Grey wagtails and jackdaws were once also only occassionally with us, but the grey wagtails are now much more frequent but still usually lone visitors, while the jackdaws are nesting here in 20011. Blue tits, great tits and chaffinches are generally in the vicinity but perhaps less easily spotted as they dart around in the thick hedgerows. 

A duck and two drake mallards became daily visitors to Lovrin's small copse covered pond in the spring of 2008, while the same combination appeared again in 2010. An occasional grey heron is also seen despite no fish in the pond.

A beautiful lone linnet was spotted in July 2008, and that autumn a large flock of canada geese settled on arable land adjacent to Lovrin paddocks for something over a week.

The most notable sighting of 2009, 4 or 5 green plover (otherwise known as lapwing or peewit) spotted early on Boxing Day morning.

An exciting early sighting in 2010, a brief glimpse of a yellow wagtail on 1st May, while pied wagtails are again nesting in the Lovrin barns. The swallows arived back in April and are a refreshing and much welcome harbinger of a new summer season to come.

Reptiles

Our one copse covered pond is mostly well overgrown, and although the most likely spot for reptilian life, is neither regularly nor overly closely inspected. Out on the paddocks, and in the wake of a number of consecutive days of persistant heavy rain in the summer of 2007, there was one close encounter with a sizeable grass snake 'swimming' through the grass, and which had mistaken the site for a paddy field !