Withdean Woods is a wooded hillside nature reserve overlooking Withdean Sports Stadium within a residential area of Brighton. It is a broad leaved wood with many beech and sycamore trees and ivy covered fallen trees. The wood is alive with birdsong and typical woodland birds such as great spotted woodpeckers and tawny owls have been seen there. The Withdean Westdene Woods and Eldred Avenue Copse Keepers (TWEACK) looks after the reserve http://www.tweack.org.uk/ There are unsurfaced paths