Work Party Tuesday 24nd November

Meet at 10am at the Redwood Drive entrance.  We will be clearing more scrub and vegetation where it is interfering with access and fencelines.  We may also coppice some of the Gorse on the dry heath area.

Tools and gloves are provided as well as refreshments.

If you need any further information please telephone Will Holland on 07827 820465.

Nature Notes

Birds:   Carrion Crows, Magpies, Black-headed Gulls, Jays, Tawny Owls, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Wood Pigeons, Stock Doves, Collared Doves, Buzzards, Stonechats, Siskins, Nuthatches, Treecreeper, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrushes, Blackbirds, Robins, Wrens, Dunnocks, Grey Wagtails, Bullfinches, Chaffinches, Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Coal/Blue/Great/Long-tailed Tits.
Mammals:   Fox, Grey Squirrels, Pipistrelle Bats.
Butterflies/Moths:   Large White, Speckled Wood, Species of day flying Moths.
Insects:   Wasps, Sheet/Nursery Web/Funnel Web/Garden Spiders.
Reptiles:   Slow Worm.
Dragonfly/Damselfly:   Small Red, Broad Bodied Chaser.
Fungi:   Birch Polypore, Deceiver, Sulphur Knight-cap, Sickener,

Readings of Pipistrelle Bats were still being taken on the last evening of the month.
A Kestrel was spotted mid-month, north of the boardwalk.

Nature Fact

The Slow Worm is a legless Lizard resembling a small, smoothly cylindrical, neckless snake.  It prefers damp shady places and hibernates during the coldest months of the year in warm places like compost heaps or under metal sheeting.