The lakes and rivers provide excellent dragonfly habitat. The Banded Demoiselle is an impressive damselfly; the male has conspicuous dark banding on its wings. Cornmill Meadows and Amwell Nature Reserve are great sites to find a wide range of dragonflies. Look overhead for Hobby, a summer visitor from Africa that hunts for small insects including dragonflies and small birds, Hall Marsh Scrape is a good place to view Hobby.
Nightingale are a summer visitor, returning in small numbers each year from Africa to breed at Fishers Green, River Lee Country Park. Often hard to see as they remain in dense scrub, and easily overlooked if seen, it is their rich tonal song, heard day or night for which the Nightingale is so famous.
A stroll on a warm summer evening along the network of waterways may reward you with a view of bats foraging for insects over the water. Look out for Daubenton’s bat feeding low over the surface of the water or Pipistrelle Bat feeding overhead.