Wildlife to see in the United Kingdom in September
4 spectacles at their peak in the United Kingdom in September, and 4 more still going on. Wild animals only: no zoos, no wildlife parks, no hunting. Open United Kingdom in September in the interactive calendar for listening times on the day you pick.
At their peak in September
Red deer rutStags roaring and groaning, antler clashes, hinds barking alarm, animals crashing through bracken and heather.
Grey seal puppingEerie wailing 'singing' of cows, bawling pups and bull snarls, with the surf.
Snettisham wader spectacularTens of thousands of knot flying in smoky clouds with a roaring wing-rush, then a low twittering murmur as they pack onto the roost banks.
Bat emergence & autumn swarmingMostly ultrasonic: echolocation and feeding buzzes, social calls. Noctule social calls and some horseshoe calls are partly audible.
Also going on in September
Pink-footed goose dawn flightsTens of thousands of geese lifting off the mudflats at first light in a wall of 'wink-wink' calls, wave after wave overhead.
Autumn visible & nocturnal migrationThin 'tseep' of redwings passing overhead all night, then a stream of finch, pipit and lark flight calls at dawn.
Bottlenose dolphins from the shoreWith a hydrophone: whistles, clicks, and burst pulses. Above water: blows and splashes very close to shore.
Late-summer bush-cricket & grasshopper chorusLoud sewing-machine buzz of great green bush-crickets from coastal scrub; ticking of dark bush-crickets; the electric drone of Roesel's in rough grassland.
More: United Kingdom all year · September along the whole flyway