Creatures living in, on, and around ancient trees

Fungi (beefsteak fungus, chicken in the woods, blushing bracket, Dryad’s saddle, oak bracket, Dyer’s mazegill, giant polypore, oak bracket,
shaggy bracket, southern bracket)
Plants growing o n the tree (ivy, mosses, lichens ferns, mistletoe)
Plants growing at the base of the tree (bluebell, holly, wood anemone, creeping jenny)
Birds (Great spotted and lesser spotted woodpeckers; tawny and barn owls; little owls; kestrel; stock dove; ducks such as mallard, goldeneye,
mandarin; redstart,; blackbird, song thrush)
Reptiles and amphibians like: Great crested newt, Grass snake, Toad, common lizard
Badger, Fox, squirrel, mink
Bats such as pipistrelles, noctules, barbastelle and Bechstein’s
Lots of beetles (violet click beetle, lesser stag beetle, rhinoceros beetle, hairy fungus beetle, red cardinal beetle, red net-winged beetle, rove
beetles, ambrosia beetles, oak jewel beetles, common furniture beetle – it makes all the little holes in dead wood!)
Millipedes, centipedes and woodlice
Lots of moths and butterflies too!
Ash black slug
False scorpion!
Hoverflies, hornets, bees
Wood snipe fly