poplar, plum, red apple, privet, snowberry, sycamore, English Elm, goat willow, hawthorn, field maple, and blackberry. ivy is also present, covering much of the ground, and trunks of the older trees. The area around the site entrance contains a small piece of rough grassland encircled by woodland. This grassland has many many species of plants including bramble, buttercups, clovers, ragwort, and hogweed, as well as bluebells, winter aconite and snowdrops which have been planted there. The main area of woodland in the nature reserve is just northwest of the entrance and occupies most of the southern area of the site. This woodland was previpusly a residential garden, and contains ash, oak and a small number of hornbeams, horse chestnuts, common limes, and poplars, much of which is covered in ivy and is home to many different insects. elder, and hawthorn are also present in the woodland, and in early spring, miniature daffodils and wood anemone sometimes grow. The small pond is located in the southern part of the woodland and has been planted with yellow iris, soft rush, watercress and brooklime. The central area is has a small opening of grassland with scattered scrub and wildflowers including meadow vetchling, common vetch, creeping cinquefoil and wild strawberry, left behind from the land's previous use as allotments. Just north of the opening of grassland is a thicket of plum trees, a remnant of the lands former use as an orchard, which many birds, wasps, foxes as well as local people eat. The far north of the reserve is a larger strip of open meadow containing wildflowers such as common knapweed, common bird's-foot trefoil, tufted vetch and wild carrot, which attract many species of butterflies and moths The woodland to the eastern side contains a small hawthorn hedge, a larger privet hedge, and snowberry among the undergrowth, which volenteers often remove due to its invasive nature. Animals Many species of birds are seen inside Grove Park Nature Reserve including, Eurasian blackcap, European green woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker, willow warbler, owls, whinchats, wheatears, kestrels, Eurasian sparrowhawks, stonechats, Old World flycatchers and common whitethroats, over 39 species of bird breed in the reserve. Other animals that live in the nature reserve include bats, grass snakes, hedgehogs, wood mouse, and several protected species, such as slow worms, common lizards, stag beetles, house sparrows, and vesper bats. Nineteen species of butterfly have been recorded at the site,