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Another attempt at magnetometry at the Garlic Farm. Details as before.

Cancelled due to adverse weather conditions for magnetometery

12 Members attended the above meeting with Helen Parry (National Trust Warden) and Hilary Higgins (National Trust Volunteer). This was in celebration of the 21st year of the Reserve being formed into a National Nature Reserve.

Saturday, 16th July, 2016 A geological ramble on the closed railway from Shide to Sandown Prof Stephen K. Donovan Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands Start time: 9.30 Saturday 16th July, 2016 Start point: Shide. South side of B 3401 on National Cycle route 23 adjace

Meet at the Garlic farm at 10.00 am in the car park.  We will continue to survey the field with the magnetometer

Half a dozen members of the botany section volunteered to go to the Brickfields site to record plants as part of this years Bioblitz at Newtown. Part of the attraction was the promise of a boat trip to this site which is inaccessible by other means. At just after eight am on 2nd June

Meet at the Garlic farm, Newchurch at 10.00 am in the car park near the buildings. We will be setting up and surveying the field with the magnetometer. Check the website if the weather in inclement.

 Ten people turned out on a lovely evening. As we had about three quarters of an hour before dusk we had a circular walk round the area near the main car park making our way to the clearing near Tuckers Gate. We heard Wren, Blackbird, Wood Pigeon, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff,

More fieldwalking at the Garlic Farm. See last week’s details.