Parking

Birds

Tufted duck, Coot, Mallard, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Cormorant, Kingfisher, Pochard, Shoveler, Bullfinch, Common Gull, Crow, Dunlin, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Goosander, Lapwing, Shelduck, Tree Sparrow, Wigeon, Wren, Canada Goose, Moorhen

Butterflies and moths

Speckled wood, Small White, Large White, Gatekeeper, Cinnabar moth, Small Skipper, Ringlet, Peacock, Red Admiral, Comma

Dragonflies and Damselflies

Brown Hawker, Common Blue Damselfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Banded demoiselle damselfly

Insects

Soldier Beetle, Green Bottle, Speckled Bush-Cricket,  

Other Vertibrates

Grass Snake, Grey Squirrel

Cree Wood is host to an important population of Red Squirrel. Pine martens can also be seen in the wood, along with Red and Roe Deer, Barn Owls, seven species of bat and particularly birds, like the Wood Warbler, Redstart and Pied Flycatcher. It is also one of the best places in Scotland to see Willow Tit at the edge of its northern range. Dippers and Grey Wagtails breed along the banks of the burns that flow through the woodland and Herons can be seen fishing while Buzzards soar overhead. The waterside marshes and meadows are home to Water Rails, Grasshopper Warblers, Reed Bunting and Sedge Warblers as well as many species of Dragonfly. In winter the riverside viewing platform is an excellent site for watching Goldeneye, Teal, Mallard Ducks and Whooper Swans.

Some of Britain's rarest flowers grow here, including northern rock cress, Norwegian sandwort and rarest of all; Edmondston's chickweed, which is only found on the serpentine debris on Unst. This plant, which is also known as Shetland Mouse-Ear was discovered in 1837 by the12-year-old Thomas Edmondston of Buness, who water appointed Professor of Botany at the Anderson University of Glasgow. He published A Flora of Shetland in 1845, but was tragically killed the following year, aged only 20 while on a scientific expedition to South America. The visitor can enjoy the sight of numerous species of seabird around the coastline.

The cliffs at Dunnet Head, which are 90 metres high in places, are a very important settlement for many seabirds and is of national significance for kittiwakes and guillemots, while other birds like puffins, fulmars, razorbills, shags and cormorants also breed there. The grassland on the top of the cliffs provide an ideal habitat for corncrake, great yellow bumblebee and twite.

The visitor can view many species of seabirds at Sumburgh Head including Shag and Northern Fulmar, Kittiwake, Common Guillemot and Black Guillemot, Razorbill and the Atlantic Puffin. In late summer there is a large number of Common Eider and scarce seabirds such as the Sooty Shearwater and Long-tailed Skua, which may be seen during seawatches. Regularly seen from Sumburgh Head are Divers, European Storm-petrel, Long-tailed Duck and the Little Auk. It is also an excellent place for viewing cetaceans with Common Porpoise, White-beaked Dolphin, Risso's Dolphin, Killer Whale, Minke Whale and Humpback Whale all possible.