Events

Ashclyst Forest

The task area has yet to be agreed with the National Trust

Gloucestershire Branch AGM and members' afternoon via zoom. Don't forget the photo competition!

Zoom

The Committee has realised that we’re not quite out of the “Covid” wood yet and decided to hold the meeting on Zoom. I hope that you will keep the date in your diary and make a point of joining us on Saturday, 23 October at 2.30pm

Dun Dubh Woods by Aberfoyle

A volunteer work party to clear Rhododendron and spruce from a beautiful oak wood near Aberfoyle that is home to the rare Beautiful Snout moth.

AGM is on Zoom. Members' Day is a live event in November.

All welcome

Saturday 30th October 2021 10am to 4pm

Meet at the forest track opposite the entrance to Cairngorm Gliding Club Field, Glenfeshie

Join our Conservation Work Party to benefit Small Blue and Dingy Skipper

Work Party at Rough Bank - mainly scrub and tree thinning.

Work party at Aston Upthorpe Downs, Oxon.

Halecat Woods, Witherslack

Maintain the ride habitat for early summer butterflies at Halecat Woods using loppers and bow saws.

Scrub clearing to improve habitat for Wall Brown and other butterflies.

Saturday 6th November 2021 10am to 4pm

Meet at the old entrance to the disused Logie Quarry at NH77397613

Join our Conservation Work Party to benefit Small Blue and Dingy Skipper

East Horsley Village Hall, KT24 6QT

All welcome

Work party at Holtspur Bottom, Bucks

Holme Stinted Pasture, Clawthorpe

Cutting and burning scrub using bow saws, loppers.

Little Breach Reserve near Culmstock

Raking up to do after the brushcutter and also some scrub/small tree cutting.

Surrey & SW London

Online via Zoom

Chudleigh Knighton Heath

Essential winter clearance work to benefit the Pearl and Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterflies.

Work Party at Rough Bank - mainly scrub and tree thinning.

Wednesday 17th November

Kingshill Local Nature Reserve, Allanton (near Shotts)

Help us maintain the habitat at Kingshill Local Nature Reserve at Allanton (near Shotts) to help butterflies and moths!

White Scar, Whitbarrow

Scrub clearance using brush cutter, loppers and bow saws

Saturday 20th November 2021 10am to 4pm

Meet at the old entrance to the disused Logie Quarry at NH77397613

Join our Conservation Work Party to benefit Small Blue and Dingy Skipper

National Trust’s Waterfall car park

Continuing the essential winter clearance work for the Heath Fritillary and other butterflies.

Fermyn Woods NN14 3HS

Scrub clearance in Fermyn Woods Country Park for Dingy and Grizzled Skippers and Green Hairstreaks
 

Tuesday 23rd November

Tentsmuir NNR, Fife

Help us maintain the coastal grasslands at Tentsmuir to help rare butterflies and moths!

Surrey & SW London

Online via Zoom

Beer

A task to manage the habitat of the Red Data Book White Spot moth, which has a localised colony along the Jurassic Coast in Devon.

Ruishton Village Hall, Cheats Road, Ruishton, Taunton TA3 5JD

Somerset & Bristol branch Annual General Meeting & Members' Day.

All members welcome.

(This meeting will follow Somerset Moth Group AGM that will be held in the morning)

Work party at Aston Upthorpe Downs, Oxon.

Cumbria

A reserve day for changes to the programme

Hertfordshire & Middlesex

Would you like to find a Brown Hairstreak egg? Liz Goodyear and Andrew Middleton will help explain how to find them in an urban landscape using their techniques which has helped locate many new areas of Middlesex and north and west London.