Sittelle torchepot
Over 20 species of butterfly have been recorded at Draycote Meadows, including common blue, small copper, marbled white, small skipper, large skipper and hedge brown. Grass snakes are found here while the trees and hedgerows around the meadows provide nesting sites for green woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker and Eurasian nuthatch in the summer as well as attracting wintering thrushes such as fieldfare and redwing during the winter months.