A snake's head fritillary
© Carolyn Collins

A snake's head fritillary
© Carolyn Collins

A ring necked parakeet
© Carolyn Collins

A speckled wood butterfly
© Carolyn Collins

A coot
© Carolyn Collins

A comma butterfly
© Carolyn Collins

A red kite
© Carolyn Collins

A pair of willow emerald damselfly
© Carolyn Collins

A long winged conehead (a species of cricket)
© Carolyn Collins

A long winged conehead (a species of cricket)
© Carolyn Collins

A male muntjac deer
© Carolyn Collins

A willow emerald damselfly
© Carolyn Collins

willow emerald damselflies mating and ovipositing-depositing eggs into the bark of an alder tree by the lake
© Carolyn Collins

A male southern migrant hawker dragonfly
© Carolyn Collins

A Volunteer workday - preparing coppice poles for fencing
© Carolyn Collins

A goldfinch
© Carolyn Collins

A ring necked parakeet
© Carolyn Collins

A Volunteer workday -clearing drainage ditches and culverts
© Carolyn Collins

A brown rat
© Carolyn Collins

A redwing, the UK's smallest true thrush, a winter visitor
© Carolyn Collins

A ring necked parakeet
© Carolyn Collins

A grey heron
© Carolyn Collins

A grey heron with fish
© Carolyn Collins

A jay, a member of the crow family
© Carolyn Collins

A little egret, first recorded breeding in the UK in 1996
© Carolyn Collins

A little egret, first recorded breeding in the UK in 1996
© Carolyn Collins

A coot
© Carolyn Collins

A wren
© Carolyn Collins

Grass snake swimming in Darlands Lake
© Carolyn Collins

Grass snake swimming in Darlands Lake
© Carolyn Collins

Grass snake swimming in Darlands Lake
© Carolyn Collins

Female and male tufted duck
© Carolyn Collins

Female and male Mandarin duck
© Carolyn Collins

Male greater spotted woodpecker
© Carolyn Collins

A robin
© Carolyn Collins

Grey wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, on the southern weir
15/04/2007
© Dianne Murphy

Dogs Mercury, Mercurialis perenni, commonly associated with ancient woodland
23/03/2014
© Dianne Murphy

Fungi on tree stump, Dead wood is a very important habitat
04/12/2008
© Dianne Murphy

Wood anemone, Anemone nemorosa
24/04/2009
© Dianne Murphy

Rabbits, Orytolagus cuniculus, grazing in the meadow
24/04/2009
© Dianne Murphy

Woodland flowers
24/04/2009
© Dianne Murphy

Caddis Fly Eggs, Trichoptera, are a group of insects whos larvae live in water, the adult fly lays clusters of eggs on leaves near water.
13/09/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Chicken of the woods Fungi, Laetiporus sulphureus
06/08/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Comma Butterfly, Polygonia c-album, open wing
27/06/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Comma Butterfly, Polygonia c-album, under wing
27/06/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Copped Hall garden with statue
© Caroline Stock

View of Copped Hall from the fields
24/04/2017
© Caroline Stock

Copped Hall
1918
© Totteridge Residents Association

Historic view of Darlands lake
© Caroline Stock

Darlands in the snow
© Caroline Stock

Dry lake bed after a long dry spell
06/08/2018
© Dianne Murphy

06/08/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Grey heron, Ardea cinerea, with young grass snake, Natrix natrix
27/06/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Grey heron, Ardea cinerea, with young grass snake, Natrix natrix
27/06/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Grey heron, Ardea cinerea, in shallow water
27/06/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Who lives here?
06/08/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Bluebells on edge of the path to The Close
22/04/2018
© Caroline Stock

View from the North Looking North West over Owl Field
14/02/2019
© Caroline Stock

View of the lake
14/02/2019
© Caroline Stock

Snow on the Folly brook
01/03/2018
© Caroline Stock

Kestrel flying over Darlands, Falco tinnunculus
13/09/2018
© Dianne Murphy

View from the North towards Mill Hill
21/04/2017
© Caroline Stock

Snake's head fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris
13/04/2017
© Caroline Stock

Wood anemone, Anemone nemorosa
21/04/2017
© Caroline Stock

An autumnal scene
26/10/2015
© Caroline Stock

An autumnal scene
26/10/2015
© Caroline Stock

An autumnal scene
26/10/2015
© Caroline Stock

Migrant hawker dragonfly, Aeshna mixta
13/09/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Ring neck parkeet, Psittacula krameria, often seen and heard at Darlands
08/02/2015
© Dianne Murphy

Pyramidal Orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis
27/06/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Snake's head fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris
05/04/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Large snowdrops near lake, Galanthus Plicatus Plicatus
14/02/2019
© Dianne Murphy

Speckled Wood Butterfly, Pararge aegeria
22/04/2018
© Dianne Murphy

Willow Emerald Damselfly, Chalcolestes viridis
16/09/2018
© Dianne Murphy