Tice's Meadow Nature Reserve: 2023

Rushmoor Community Lottery

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Volunteer Work Parties

Our volunteer work party schedule for the next few months. Please do come and join us if you're free - a great way to spend a morning, helping nature, working with the local community, and having some fun at the same time.

Plastic Free Farnham

We are delighted to have joined as an ally to the Plastic Free Farnham campaign, and signed the pledge to reduce our use of single-use plastics. Do check out their Facebook Page for more information.

Ethnically Diverse Environmental Network (Surrey)

The Tice's Meadow Bird Group are proud members of the Ethnically Diverse Environment Network (Surrey). We look forward to hosting EDEN members at future work parties and events. Please do sign-up if you'd like to get involved: EDEN Surrey.

Friday 1st December

Dina Burford: Siskin.

Thanks to the 19 volunteers, including the wonderful Surrey Choices Growth Team, who spent the day coppicing an old hedgerow in Lisa’s Wood today.

Saturday 2nd December

Dina Burford: Snipe.

Thanks to Paul, Oli & Phil for helping extend the roof of the old Sand Martin Bank today - when finished we’ll have doubled the area available for nesting Common Terns.

Sunday 3rd December

Peter Brown: Green Sandpiper & Snipe.

Monday 4th December

No reports.

Tuesday 5th December

Richard Horton: Black-necked Grebe (21st record for site, 136th bird species for 2023).

Peter Brown: 2nd Black-necked Grebe.

Wednesday 6th December

Peter Brown: 2 Snipe, Goosander (redhead, 20th record for site) & 2 Black-necked Grebe.

Thursday 7th December

No reports.

Friday 8th December

Dina Burford: Green Sandpiper, 5 Little Egret & Black-necked Grebe.

Thanks to Paul & Oli for helping fit the waterproof membrane, safety barriers & fascias to the newly extended Sand Martin Bank roof today.

Saturday 9th December

Richard Seargent: Black-necked Grebe.

Sunday 10th December

Monday 11th December

Peter Brown: 8 Snipe & 2 Black-necked Grebe.

Richard Horton: Green Sandpiper.

Tuesday 12th December

Wednesday 13th December

Colin Varndell: Green Sandpiper & Snipe.

Thursday 14th December

Mark Elsoffer: Green Sandpiper, 12 Snipe, Jack Snipe, 2 Black-necked Grebe, Ring-necked Parakeet (30th site record) & Peregrine.

Friday 15th December

Mark Elsoffer: 3 Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.

Roger Dickey: 26 Snipe & 2 Jack Snipe (on Snipe survey).

Stuart Malcolm: 14 Egyptian Goose, Common Gull, Kingfisher & Mistle Thrush.

Andrew Platt: Lemon Disco (Bisporella citrina) - new for site.

A huge thank you to the 40 volunteers who spent the day clearing willow from the reed beds today. We also strimmed the mound, & surveyed for snipe and harvest mice. Great work in partnership with Surrey Choices and the Surrey Hills Society. Thanks to Andy & Sharon for the baked potatoes!

Saturday 16th December

Mark Elsoffer: 10 Snipe, 2 Black-necked Grebe, Raven & Peregrine.

M Scott: 3 Green Sandpiper.

Thank you to the 30 volunteers who attended our work party today. We cut & burnt a huge amount of willow from the reed beds. This will allow the reeds to flourish, providing an important habitat for breeding migrant birds. We also finished off the Sand Martin Bank extension. Great to be joined by Surrey Choices. Thanks to Andy & Sharon for the baked potatoes, and Phil for the 2023 vintage Tice's Tipple - brewed with hops from behind the shelter on Horton's Mound!

Sunday 17th December

Peter Brown: 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Snipe & 2 Black-necked Grebe.

Patrick Rollinson: Cetti's Warbler & 34 Fieldfare.

Monday 18th December

Tuesday 19th December

No reports.

Wednesday 20th December

John Hunt: Black-necked Grebe.

Peter Brown: Green Sandpiper, 2 Snipe, 120+ Lapwing & 2nd Black-necked Grebe.

Thursday 21st December

Colin Varndell: Green Sandpiper.

Friday 22nd December

Peter Brown: Black-necked Grebe.

Andrew Platt: Eutypella scoparia, Chaetosphaerella phaeostroma, Puccinia phragmitis, Trichia decipiens & Enchylium tenax - 3 fungi, a slime mould & a lichen - all new species for site.