Rivenhall & Silver End
End to End Nature Care
DATE TIME ACTIVITY Pictures Weds 20thApril 7:00pm Cowslip Count: Meet in the car park for Tarecroft Wood on Rickstones Road.(TL824171) Cowslips Weds 27thApril 7:00pm Amble around the footpaths in the environs of Hoo Hall. Meet at Rivenhall Village Hall. Weds 4thMay 6.30 for 7.00pm Danbury Common, primarily for Nightingales. Meet at Stovern's Hall Farm at 18:30 to car share or at the Armoury car park, just past the Cricketers Arms (TL779046) in Danbury at 19:00. Weds 11thMay 6.30 for 7.00pm Birdwatching at Layer Breton causeway, Abberton Reservoir. Meet at 18:30 at Stovern's Hall Farm (TL825172) to car share or at 19:00 at the causeway (TL950166). Weds 18thMay 7.00pm Spring plants amble at Silver End. Meet at the Western Arms car park. Weds 25thMay 7.00pm Flint hunt at Rivenhall Airfield. Meet on the lane by Allshots industrial park (TL830200). Weds 1stJune 7.00 pm Aquatic surveying in the River Brain at Hole Farm, Faulkbourne. Meet by the Hole Farm barns accessed at the end of the lane under the railway line (CM8 1RJ or TL802176). Weds 8thJune 7.00pm Earthworm surveying in Jackie Allen's garden at 5 Foxmead, Rivenhall End. CM8 3HD Weds 15thJune 7.00pm Whetmead, hoping for orchids. Meet behind the sewage works on Blackwater Lane (TL827138). Weds 22ndJune 7.00pm Packhorse Bridge, Kelvedon. Meet at the entrance to World's End Lane, opposite The Sun Inn on Feering Hill (CO5 9NH or TL866192). Donation requested. Weds 29thJune 7.00pm Solitary bee surveying, Rivenhall. Meet at the Village Hall. Followed by optional glowworm survey at Bulford Mill Lane, Cressing (CM77 8NT or TL777202). Weds 6thJuly 7.00pm Summer Social at at Stovern's Hall Farm (CM8 3HQ or TL825172). Bring a bottle and/or nibbles. Weds 13thJuly 7.00pm Insect surveying. Silver End pits and Rivenhall Place. Meet at Western Arms car park. Followed by optional glowworm survey at Bulford Mill Lane (Meet at Cressing Railway Station). Weds 20thJuly 6.30 for 7.00pm Tiptree Heath. Meet at 18:30 at Stovern's Hall Farm to car share or at 19:00 at the Heath car park.(TL882148). Weds 27thJuly 10.30pm Glowworm survey at Bulford Mill Lane (TL777202). Weds 3rdAugust 7.00pm A visit to the Trafalgar Wood at Porters Farm (grid ref TL834193 postcode CO5 9DD) on Hollow Road between Silver End and Kelvedon. Weds 10thAugust 7.00pm All Saints church, Cressing for building stones and churchyard plants/inverts. Meet at the church on Church Road, Cressing (CM77 8PQ or TL794204). Weds 17thAugust 7.00pm Grasshopper, bush-cricket and cricket surveying in Rivenhall Churchyard. Weds 24thAugust 7.00pm Tree fruits and molluscs/invertebrates, Tarecroft Wood, plus crepuscular signs as dusk falls. Meet in the parking area at the bottom of the track to the Wood (TL824171). Weds 31stAugust 7.00pm Late summer plant and invertebrate surveying at Silver End Pits. Meet in Western Arms car park (CM8 3SD or TL813193). We may visit the pub afterwards.
N.B. Some details may change. If you are unsure of specifics for any activity, please call Simon on 01621 810141 or 07947 388180. Any evenings with a guest guide/expert may involve a small donation, usually £2.00 per person.
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