FREE NATURE FUN AFTERNOON
* Moth trap opening 12.00pm
* Traditional Crafts
* Pond dipping with underwater camera
* Wildlife Guided walk 1.00pm
* Wildlife information and displays
* Refreshments (small charge)
* Results/Awards of photographic competition 3.00pm
* Tombola
* Meet some of our reptiles
Well behaved dogs welcome.
Children to be accompanied by an adult at all times.
No event parking available. Please have consideration for our neighbours.
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Nature Watch
Fine weather with occasional thunderstorms for this period.
The ongoing Butterfly Transects undertaken indicate that, over the last 3 weeks, numbers of Silver Studded Blues have increased compared to the corresponding period last year.
A Tawny Owl reported calling along the west side of Slop Bog.
SIGHTINGS/OBSERVATIONS
Kingfisher Creek: China Mark Moths, Large Red/Small/Azure/Azure Blue Damselflies, Four Spot Chasers/Broad Bodied/Common Hawker/Emperor Dragonflies.
Western Enclosure: Stonechats, Tree Pipits, Green Woodpeckers, Fox, Broad Bodied/Four Spot Dragonflies, Small Red Damselflies.
Beaufoys Bog: Stonechats.
Wild Wood: Buzzards, Chiffchaffs, Green/Great Spotted Woodpeckers.
Hazelwood: Siskins, Wrens, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Songthrush, Nuthatch, Tree Creeper, Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Chiffchaff, Blue/Great/Coal/Long Tailed Tits, Buzzard, Magpies, Jays.
Wet Wood: Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Songthrush, Chiffchaff, Jays, Blackcaps, Male and Female Roe Deer.
Nightjar Twirl: Grass Snakes, Azure Blue Damselflies.
Eastern Enclosure: Adder, Tree Pipit, Jay, Green Woodpecker.
Boardwalk: Two Common Lizards, Keeled Skipper/Four Spot Chaser Dragonflies.
Flowering Plants: Common Cudweed, Dwarf Gorse, Bell Heather, Cross-leaved Heath, Cotton Grass, Bog Asphodel, Cat's Ear, Tormentil, Cinquefoil, Hedge Woundwort, Hedge Bindweed, Bird's Foot Trefoil, Common Vetch, Black Medick, Smooth-sow Thistle, Ragwort, Groundsel, Herb Robert, Marsh Beadstraw, Water Lily, Sheep's Sorrel, Common Chickweed, Wall Speedwell, Herb Bennet, Enchanter's Nightshade, Stinging Nettle, Nipple Wort, Smooth Hawksbeard, Curled Dock.
The ongoing Butterfly Transects undertaken indicate that, over the last 3 weeks, numbers of Silver Studded Blues have increased compared to the corresponding period last year.
A Tawny Owl reported calling along the west side of Slop Bog.
SIGHTINGS/OBSERVATIONS
Kingfisher Creek: China Mark Moths, Large Red/Small/Azure/Azure Blue Damselflies, Four Spot Chasers/Broad Bodied/Common Hawker/Emperor Dragonflies.
Western Enclosure: Stonechats, Tree Pipits, Green Woodpeckers, Fox, Broad Bodied/Four Spot Dragonflies, Small Red Damselflies.
Beaufoys Bog: Stonechats.
Wild Wood: Buzzards, Chiffchaffs, Green/Great Spotted Woodpeckers.
Hazelwood: Siskins, Wrens, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Songthrush, Nuthatch, Tree Creeper, Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Chiffchaff, Blue/Great/Coal/Long Tailed Tits, Buzzard, Magpies, Jays.
Wet Wood: Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Songthrush, Chiffchaff, Jays, Blackcaps, Male and Female Roe Deer.
Nightjar Twirl: Grass Snakes, Azure Blue Damselflies.
Eastern Enclosure: Adder, Tree Pipit, Jay, Green Woodpecker.
Boardwalk: Two Common Lizards, Keeled Skipper/Four Spot Chaser Dragonflies.
Flowering Plants: Common Cudweed, Dwarf Gorse, Bell Heather, Cross-leaved Heath, Cotton Grass, Bog Asphodel, Cat's Ear, Tormentil, Cinquefoil, Hedge Woundwort, Hedge Bindweed, Bird's Foot Trefoil, Common Vetch, Black Medick, Smooth-sow Thistle, Ragwort, Groundsel, Herb Robert, Marsh Beadstraw, Water Lily, Sheep's Sorrel, Common Chickweed, Wall Speedwell, Herb Bennet, Enchanter's Nightshade, Stinging Nettle, Nipple Wort, Smooth Hawksbeard, Curled Dock.
Nature Watch
Grass Snakes are excellent swimmers and can stay under water for up to one hour at a time
Site Management
Much of the work recently has been done by the cattle. You may have noticed that the grass this year seems less vigorous within the grazing unit. This is due to the cattle grazing it down and creating lawn like areas in places. This allows light to reach the soil giving the heather and more delicate seedlings the chance to germinate.
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