Fauna include otters, brown hares, muntjac deer, skylarks, lapwings, yellowhammers and meadow pipits. Yellowhammers in the hedges and in the meadows, skylarks. Birds include yellowhammers, lesser whitethroats, dunnocks and song thrushes. Dartford warblers, stonechats and yellowhammers breed on the gorse-covered hillsides. It has a diverse bird life, such as yellowhammers, whitethroats, song thrushes and short-eared owls. The winter flocks of finches were lost, the yellowhammers disappeared, the skylarks nearly so. Yellowhammers are monogamous and breed when aged one year. Yellowhammers feed on the ground, usually in flocks outside the breeding season.