Category: Wildlife

Whilst working together as a group we also learn more about the plants and animals in our local park. This photo was taken on one of the impromptu litter picks in the park. The lovely butterfly was identified as a Marbled White by another group member.

Beggarwood Park is also home to a very rare bird – a leucistic Mapgie with brown and white feathers instead of the usual black and white. Leucism is an abnormal condition of reduced pigmentation in the feathering. Birds with this condition are often referred to as ghost birds.