Saturday, January 10th
Meeting in the lay-by as usual at 09:30.

Details to be announced….

Thanks to Mark Hockey for some more brilliant pictures – check out the gallery. We have a work group organised again for this Saturday – 13th September, 2014. Anyone is most welcome to join us. We meet in the lay-by by the car wash on Countances Way at 09:30.

Bottle digging continues at the Nature Reserve and proves to be a thorny issue. The latest dig was in a discrete area, but leaving broken glass and rubbish exposed is not something you want to encourage on a Local Nature Reserve. The photos here don’t really do it justice, but it would be interesting to hear other people’s opinions on this pastime.

I can see why some of these areas have been dug and some of the finds may be interesting but it is a bit disrespectful to the volunteers, who have worked hard for the site to be awarded Local Nature Reserve status, to be confronted with this.

If you’re new to butterflies Butterfly Conservation now has a Smartphone App that helps you identify butterflies and add butterfly records to their national database. The App takes a grid reference from your phone’s GPS and also allows you to submit photos, so I believe.

Click here to check it out!