 The woodland rides and glades provide ideal habitat for the nationally scarce wood white ("Leptidea sinapsis") butterfly, this site having by far the strongest colony known in Somerset.The grassland provides habitat for the nationally scarce marsh fritillary ("Eurodryas aurinia") butterfly.The breeding birds include nightingale ("Luscinia megarhyches"), redstart ("Phoenicurus phoenicurus") and wood warbler ("Phylloscopus sibilatrix").