Bat Survey 

A daylight bat survey was undertaken by R Jones in 2002. As a result of the survey various bat boxes were set up around the Green and for a time monitored.

Small Mammal Survey

The small mammals living in the hedgerows on the Green were formally surveyed over a 2 week period in October 2023. A total of 74 “individuals”* were caught and released unharmed using Longworth traps supplied by the Sussex Mammal Recording Group.

There were 57 wood mice, 16 field and bank voles and 1 common shrew. Although not seen in the survey, there had been evidence of dormice on the Green due to their distinctive gnawing pattern on hazlenuts, and confirmation of their presence came during the annual nest box tidy-up in December 2023, when a dormouse nest was found in one of the boxes.

The Green is also home to moles, rabbits. foxes and hedgehogs, the latter perhaps as there is no resident badger population.

* it may be that there were some returnees due to the free food!

Dormouse

Cattle

In the summer months, cattle belonging to a local farmer graze on the Green and many of them calf there.

A calf born on the Green in 2009