Animals known to live and feed and/or breed in the orchard include:
Foxes
Muntjac deer
Roe deer
Hedgehogs
Stag beetles
Bats, of various species
Noble chafers
Great Crested Newts
Sparrowhawks
Herons
Greater Spotted Woodpeckers
Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers
Green Woodpeckers
Blackcaps
Chiffchaffs
Sedge warblers
Garden warblers
Pied wagtails
Yellow wagtails
Tawny owls
Little owls
Short Eared Owls
Wrens
Robins
Dunnocks
Sparrows
Song Thrushes
Linnets
Long Tailed Tits
Goldfinches
Coal tits
Bullfinches
Various types of frogs, toads
Grass snakes
Adders
Woodcock
It’s quite a list and still growing as the orchard is the end of the last continuous green strip in the South Western area of Colchester, so is part of a much wider and more important network of open spaces.