Site Sale
Your community nature reserve is being sold - agent's details here.
Please see the update to our petition here, and sign & share our petition to Hanson.
We have reached out to our partners and supporters, and are currently deciding our next move. In the meantime, please keep promoting the petition.
Pin Badges
Our new pin badges are now available to buy.
Four new designs: Bullfinch, Common Tern, Green Sandpiper & Reed Bunting.
£5 each (+ £1 p&p per 4 badges).
Limited to 100 per design. All details below.
Please email ticesmeadowshop@gmail.com to place an order.
Thursday 24th September
Mark Elsoffer: 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Snipe, Little Egret, 7 Wigeon, 750+ House Martin, 30+ Swallow, Peregrine & 2 Hobby.
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| (c) Kev Campbell - Hobby |
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| (c) Kev Campbell - Buzzard |
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| (c) Kev Campbell - Kestrel |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Peregrine |
Friday 25th September
Mark Elsoffer: 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Snipe, 4 Wigeon, c300 House Martin, 6 Sand Martin, Yellow Wagtail, Merlin (f), Peregrine & 2 Hobby.
17th site record of Merlin, last recorded 25/02/20.
The pupils from Badshot Lea Village Infants School visited site this afternoon.
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| (c) Badshot Lea Village Infants School |
Saturday 26th September
Mark Elsoffer: Common
Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2 Snipe, Shelduck, 7 Wigeon, 400
House Martin, 10 Sand Martin, 20 Swallow, Siskin, Lesser Redpoll, Hobby & 2 Peregrine.
Richard Seargent: Dunlin.
Mark Elsoffer & Richard Seargent: Short-eared Owl.
5th site record of Short-eared Owl & 141st bird species recorded on site this year. Last reported 25/10/15.
We had a quick work party this morning where we cut down the hops behind the shelter and laid down plastic sheeting on Bells Piece (to kill the grass).
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| (c) Michael Edwards - Short-eared Owl |
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| (c) Michael Edwards - Short-eared Owl |
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| (c) Michael Edwards - Short-eared Owl |
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| (c) Jonathan Durham - Mute Swan |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Volunteers at Work |
Sunday 27th September
Mark Elsoffer: Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 4 Snipe, 3 Wigeon, 4 Little Grebe & 8 House Martin.
Jort Brough: Hobby.
Visitor: 3-6 Lesser Redpoll.
Dina Burford: Black Nightshade (Solanum nigrum) - new species for site.
The nature reserve has become a haven for many local families during a difficult year.
Great to receive this card from Lily today - one of the youngest members of the TMBG, and a budding birdwatcher.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Lily's Card |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Lily's Card |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Great Crested Grebe |
Monday 28th September
Dina Burford: Common Sandpiper & Little Grebe.
Oli Sausage: Zebra Finch (escape).
Thanks to the team from BVCP who sowed 3 areas of the Meadow with locally sourced wet meadow species yesterday.
They also planted 150 Common Knapweed, Birds-foot Trefoil and Devils-bit Scabious - plants that Steve Bailey had very kindly grown for us at home.
Steve Bailey also found a new species for site yesterday: Needle Spike-rush (Eleocharis acicularis).
This species is "very rare & declining" in Surrey, & is the 1,500th species of wildlife recorded at Tice's Meadow Nature Reserve!
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| (c) Richard Bavin - The Hide |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Stonechat |
Tuesday 29th September
Jort Brough: Raven.
Dina Burford: 2 Snipe.
Malcolm Fincham: Pintail (f).
18th site record of Pintail, last recorded 23/09/20.
Clouded Yellow in the Bike Field.
Dina Burford found the following new species for site:
- Turnip (Brassica Rapa)
- Alfalfa (Medicago sativa)
- Lamb's Ear (Stachys byzantina)
Wednesday 30th September
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| (c) Dina Burford - Great Crested Grebe |
Thursday 1st October
John Hunt: Common Sandpiper, 11 Teal, 7 Gadwall, 4 Wigeon, 6 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, 2 Stonechat, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Reed Bunting & Grey Wagtail.
Mark Elsoffer: 3 Snipe, 12 Lapwing, 2 Little Grebe, 80+ House Martin & 2 Peregrine.
Dina Burford: Little Egret.
Jort Brough: Dunlin.
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| (c) John Hunt - Wasp's Nest |
Friday 2nd October
No reports.
Saturday 3rd October
Jort Brough: Common Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper, 35 Lapwing, 20+ Snipe, 4 Sand Martin, 100+ House Martin, 15 Swallow, 20+ Meadow Pipit, 4 Stonechat & Short-eared Owl.
Richard Horton: Yellow Wagtail.
Dina Burford: Little Grebe.
6th site record of Short-eared Owl, but 2nd in past week.
Latest recorded Yellow Wagtail on site by 5 days.
Dina Burford: Common Orange Lichen (Xanthoria parietina) - new species for site.
Following 42mm of rain in the past 24 hours, the River Blackwater burst its banks near the feeding station, flooded the track, and ran through the scrub into the ditch behind Horton's Mound. We have never seen the river rise that high and fast. The fact that Hanson and the Environment Agency both refuse to acknowledge responsibility for maintaining it has been raised multiple times to the Site Aftercare Committee, but to no avail.
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| (c) Jort Brough - Flooding |
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| (c) Jort Brough - Flooding |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Floods |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Floods |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Floods |
Sunday 4th October
Richard Seargent: 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, Redwing, Sand Martin, House Martin, Swallow & Swift.
Latest Swift recorded on site by 22 days, latest Sand Martin by 3 days, and earliest returning Redwing by 2 days.
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| (c) Mark Wood - Floods |
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| (c) Mark Wood - Floods |
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| (c) Mark Wood - Floods |
Monday 5th October
Sean Foote: Common Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Lesser Redpoll, Firecrest, probable Little Bunting & Hobby.
Should the record be accepted by the Surrey Bird Club, Little Bunting will be a new species for site, and the 198th bird species recorded on site.
10th site record of Firecrest & 142nd bird species recorded on site this year. Last reported 09/04/19.
Sean Foote recorded the following new species for site today:
- Pelargonium Webcap (Cortinarius flexipes),
- Blueing Bracket (Postia subcaesia),
- Mouse-tail Moss (Isothecuim myosuroides),
- Common Feather-moss (Kindbergia praelonga),
- Wood Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum affine),
- Ash Key Gall Mite (Aceria fraxinivora).
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| (c) Jonathan Durham - Cormorant |
Tuesday 6th October
Clouded Yellow on Horton's Mound.
Wednesday 7th October
Jort Brough: 2 Snipe, Kingfisher, 2 Swallow & 20 House Martin.
Richard Horton: Marsh Tit.
First site record of Marsh Tit. 198th bird species recorded on site, and 143rd bird species recorded on site this year.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Migrant Hawker |
Thursday 8th October
Mark Elsoffer: Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 7 Snipe, Grey Wagtail, 3 Stonechat & 250 House Martin.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Spindle |
Friday 9th October
Richard Horton: Hobby.
Peter Brown: Common Sandpiper & Kingfisher.
Latest recorded Hobby on site by 1 day.
Saturday 10th October
John Hunt: 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Red Kite, Kestrel & Peregrine.
Jort Brough: 4 Swallow, 3 House Martin & Sand Martin.
Richard Horton: Spoonbill.
6th site record of Spoonbill. Last reported 22/05/20.
Latest recorded Sand Martin on site by 9 days.
Richard Seargent led 19 scouts from Farnborough around site today.
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| (c) Richard Bavin - Double Rainbow |
Sunday 11th October
Mark Elsoffer: Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, Redwing,
Leonard Winchcombe: Pheasant.
Peter Brown: Snipe.
Phil Hughes: House Martin.
Clouded Yellow butterfly on Horton's Mound.
We had the pleasure of hosting two six-person walks for the Surrey Bird Club this morning.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Stonechat |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Surrey Bird Club Walk |
Monday 12th October
John Hunt: 9 Lapwing, Snipe, Little Egret, 17 Teal, 10 Wigeon, 22 Shoveler, 3 Pochard, 6 Gadwall, 30 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, 4 Chiffchaff, Blackcap & 600+ Redwing.
Dina Burford: Pheasant.
Dina Burford: Bolete Eater (Hypomyces chrysospermus) - new species for site.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Stonechat |
Tuesday 13th October
Sean Foote: 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Snipe, Mandarin (f), Crossbill, 5 Lesser Redpoll, 600 Redwing, 100 Fieldfare (first returning birds of winter), 4 House Martin & Swallow.
Peter Brown: Treecreeper, Grey Wagtail & Peregrine.
6th site record of Mandarin, last reported 04/04/20.
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