Norman Hall organised the society’s annual moth-trapping event at Padworth Common on Saturday 20th August. As darkness fell, 7 bright mercury-vapour lights were set up at various locations in the north-west part of the common. Specialist heathland moths included True Lover’s Knot, Neglected Rustic, Narrow-winged Pug and Ling Pug. Several different forms of the striking [...]
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Sally Rankin led a field trip at Lambridge Wood near Henley on Sunday 7th August. The walk started out through classic Chilterns beech woodland with a dense canopy and sparse understorey, then passed through an area where holly was prolific. Thin-spiked Wood-sedge Carex strigosa was found by the eastern end of the large ditch that [...] Janet Welsh led a field trip at Peppard and Kingwood Commons on Saturday 30th July. The walk started in welcome shade on Peppard Common. Oak, rowan, holly and birch trees were indicators of the acid soil conditions. In the first sunny clearing, Dwarf Gorse and heather were in flower, while Purple Hairstreaks and [...] The weather was dry but overcast and cool for the time of year. On the same Friday in 2010, the park was full of migrating swallows but this year there were only a few swooping around the young cattle. The wildlife verge across the exit road near the start of the parkland walks [...] On Wednesday 20 July 2011, Fred Taylor led a group of 20, RDNHS members and others, from the Bottle and Glass at Binfield Heath to woodland between Binfield Heath and Sonning Common, including Red Hill Wood. The walk progressed along ‘Bones Lane’ from the pub to the wood. Bones Lane is an ancient Pack Horse [...] The annual coach trip got off to an unpromising start, with driving rain lashing down as we sped southwards. Would this be a repeat of the very wet coach trip to the same area in 2007? At the end of the trip, most people must have agreed with organiser Graham Saunders – it had been one [...] |
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