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New Forest wildlife: what to see, and when
Ancient oak and beech woods, open heath and grazed lawns in Hampshire. Badgers dig their setts on the well-drained banks, fallow deer move through the woods, and on summer evenings nightjars churr over the heath.
Best known for
Season by season
What’s worth looking for, quickest to see first, with the best time of day.
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Rare visitors
Not here most of the time. When one turns up it stays a day or two.
See also: the British wildlife calendar · all species · all five places