Livery Stables, Horse Supplies & Services: Wysall Lane, Wymeswold, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 6US
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Lovrin Equine Limited Livery Stables, Horse Supplies & Services: Wysall Lane, Wymeswold, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 6US |
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Regulars: Rabbits, Hares, Foxes, Domestic Cats (from the adjacent housing estate) and Ferral Cats. While only an occassional visitor in past years, in 2021/22 we seem to have a semi-resident Muntjac deer. In Spring 2022 came across a Hare's nest in the grass with 3 leverets only a few days old all cuddled up together (see pic). By the next day they had been moved elsewhere. |
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Occassional Visitors: Grey Squirrels, Roe Deer, & unseen night-time Deer |
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Not on the Lovrin site itself, but 16th Oct. 2018, a sole Roe Deer grazing on the verge on Hoton Road just out of Wymeswold. A doe I think, she slipped into undergrowth and disappeared on my approach. Another similar Roe Deer sighting, 27th May 2019, mid-way between Cotes and Hoton on the verge of the A60. |  |
On the night of
16-17th July 2019, when
grass in un-grazed paddocks was at it's tallest (prior to hay
making), a group
of deer camped overnight on the Lovrin site. They were not seen, and
left no sign of entry or exit from site, but took down electric fencing
hidden by the tall grass and flattened a large area of grass where they
lay down in the night. |
Summer / Autumn 2022, and we are
occasionally losing about 50 Litres of water over night from a drinker
in one of the 'empty' far paddocks. Have set up an infra red camera to
try to spot the interlopers !! |
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Everyday Regulars: Crows, Magpies, Wood Pigeons, Blackbirds, Sparrows, Pied Wagtails, Pheasants, French (red legged) Partridges, Stock Doves, Collared Doves. |
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Frequent Visitors: Buzzards, Kestrels, Starlings (winter), Yellow Hammers, Swallows (spring), Jackdaws, Grey Wagtail, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Chaffinches |
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Occasional Visitors: Coots, Moorhens, Gold Finch, Redwing, Mallard, Grey Heron, Green Woodpecker, |
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Sightings: Skylarks (common 10 years ago, but no longer), Little Owl, Linnet, Canada Geese, Green Plover, Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret (seen off-site), Red Kite (one sighting / overflew Lovrin site), Fieldfares (a small flock Feb. 2018). A lone juvenile Mute Swan even dropped in for a lunchtime snack early in 2022, as did two Grey (Lag ?) Geese in May. |
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Rare
Sighting: Saturday 5th April 2025 - A bird of prey got temporarily confused trying to find the way out having entered one of my horse barns. I thought it was a Goshawk but they are as rare as hensteeth, and my phone camera on zoom mode hasn't given the clearest of pictures. It was also suggested to more likely have been a Hen Harrier, albeit they too are very rare. So I asked the RSPB if they could clarify with any certainty, and they said they could, and that it was a Sparrowhawk: 'A thin looking bird much less bulky than either a Goshawk or a Hen Harrier. Males have russet barring on the chest, which this bird doesn't have, so presume this to have been a female'. Maybe this bird pursued another smaller bird into the barn and became disoriented. |
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| 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. However, out on the paddocks, and in the wake of a number of consecutive days of persistent 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 ! |  |
September 2016 and a big fat frog sits out on the paddocks begging for it's photo to be taken. A Common Frog, one of a great many which grazed the paddocks that year. This is the actual frog photographed on-site, not just a sample of the species photo as most others on this page. Occassional plagues of frogs are not unusual, small specimens often leaping suddenly out of the grass as they sense the lawn mower approaching fast ! |  |
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Lovrin Equine Limited Livery Stables, Horse Supplies & Services: Wysall Lane, Wymeswold, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 6US |
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