Usual time 10am-1pm, meet at Redwood Drive entrance. We will be installing waymarker posts on the open heath to clarify where the permissive footpaths are. Please bring your own refreshments if required and be prepared for some digging work. Unless we have lots of rain between now and next Thursday, wellies shouldn't be needed.
This will be the last Thursday morning work party for the time being. Starting next month and through the winter we will be going back to the full day Sunday tasks (last Sunday of the month 10am-3.30pm). The first date will be Sunday 25th September.
All volunteers very welcome.
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Nature Notes July
The weather during July was mixed, with days of heavy cloud providing heavy downpours of rain but with a good number of dry warm days, filled with sunshine. Monitors found the reserve very quiet, with nothing much on show.
SIGHTINGS
Birds: Buzzards, Jackdaws, Black-headed Gulls, Magpies, Jays, Wood Pigeons, Carrion Crows, Green/Great Spotted Woodpeckers. Blackbirds, Song Thrush, Robins, Dunnocks, Wrens, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Siskins, Nuthatches, Treecreepers, Willow Warblers, Swifts, Tree Pipit, Coal/Blue/Great/Long-tailed Tits.
Reptiles/Amphibians: Common Lizard, Grass Snakes, Slow-worms.
Insects: Hover Flies.
Spiders: Raft, Heather Jumping, Heather Crab.
Butterflies: Silver-studded Blue, Marbled White, Large Skippers, Small Skippers, Large Whites, Gatekeeper, Meadow Browns, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood.
Dragonflies: Broad-bodied Chaser, Keeled Skimmers, Emperor.
Plants in flower: Common Helleborine, Cut-leaved Geranium, Heather/Ling – Cross-leaved, Bell, Low summer growing Gorse.
Mammals: Fox, Pipistrelle Bats, Grey Squirrels, Moles.
Moles became more active after heavy rain. Young Moles are at present forming a network of tunnels, which will become their territory for hunting worms.
A flock of Swifts were seen feeding over the site, building up food reserves for the long journey overseas during August.
No Marsh Gentians found yet.
SIGHTINGS
Birds: Buzzards, Jackdaws, Black-headed Gulls, Magpies, Jays, Wood Pigeons, Carrion Crows, Green/Great Spotted Woodpeckers. Blackbirds, Song Thrush, Robins, Dunnocks, Wrens, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Siskins, Nuthatches, Treecreepers, Willow Warblers, Swifts, Tree Pipit, Coal/Blue/Great/Long-tailed Tits.
Reptiles/Amphibians: Common Lizard, Grass Snakes, Slow-worms.
Insects: Hover Flies.
Spiders: Raft, Heather Jumping, Heather Crab.
Butterflies: Silver-studded Blue, Marbled White, Large Skippers, Small Skippers, Large Whites, Gatekeeper, Meadow Browns, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood.
Dragonflies: Broad-bodied Chaser, Keeled Skimmers, Emperor.
Plants in flower: Common Helleborine, Cut-leaved Geranium, Heather/Ling – Cross-leaved, Bell, Low summer growing Gorse.
Mammals: Fox, Pipistrelle Bats, Grey Squirrels, Moles.
Moles became more active after heavy rain. Young Moles are at present forming a network of tunnels, which will become their territory for hunting worms.
A flock of Swifts were seen feeding over the site, building up food reserves for the long journey overseas during August.
No Marsh Gentians found yet.
Nature Facts
Main Summer litters born to Grey Squirrels, with dispersal of Spring young. Adults begin to grow new ear-tufts and tail hairs. Fox cubs lie up in a sheltered position above ground. The remaining Froglets leave the water. Bat young still suckling from
their mothers.
their mothers.
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