Other Ways to Record Wildlife

As well as the main APollOW survey, there are two other ways you are encouraged to record wildlife for the Nature Recovery Project.

Garden Birdwatch

Which birds visit your garden over a week? Keep a count through the BTO (British Trust for Orniothology) Garden Birdwatch (you can also optionally record other wildlife such as mammals, butterflies and amphibians.) It’s easy to do – you keep a list of the different birds that you see using your garden over the course of a week. You can do it for just one week or more often. The whole family can help! More details are here. 

iRecord

If you see any interesting wildlife (plants or animals) in your garden or anywhere else around the village or in the nearby countryside, then you can record this for our Nature Recovery Project using irecord on your phone or laptop. The phone app automatically records the date and place and can even suggest what you are looking at!

This isn’t a structure survey but it is interesting to record what you’ve seen – and to collect up everyone’s sightings around the village. See below for recent observations…

If you can’t use iRecord…

Try this simple online form to send in your record.

Or you can email the details (date, place, species and optionally a photo) to sustainableow@gmail.com

Latest Sightings

Recorded using iRecord around Oakington in the first three months of 2025:

  • European Water Vole-Arvicola amphibius
  • Cornelian-cherry-Cornus mas
  • Threeband garden slug-Ambigolimax
  • Chinese Muntjac-Muntiacus reevesi
  • Buff-tailed Bumblebee-Bombus terrestris
  • Green Parakeet-Psittacara holochlorus
  • Kingfisher-Alcedo atthis
  • Brown Hare-Lepus europaeus
  • Twenty-plume Moth-Alucita hexadactyla
  • Jay-Garrulus glandarius