Rushmoor Community Lottery
We've launched our page on the Rushmoor Community Lottery.
Tickets cost £1 per week - we will receive 50p per ticket (and other local good causes 10p).
You could win up to £25,000!
Scan the QR code below, or click this link to go to our page. Thank you for your support.
Co-Op Local Community Fund
We are delighted to have been chosen to be part of the Co-op Local Community Fund. We're raising money to buy more tools and equipment for our volunteer work parties.
If you are a Co-Op member, please click the link below and choose us as your cause. 1% of everything you spend on selected Co-Op branded goods and services between today and 21st October 2023 will be donated to our cause:
https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/66193
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.
Tuesday 1st August
Richard Horton: 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Redstart (12th site record, 125th bird species for 2023), Hobby & 2 Peregrine.
Alan Bird: 2 Little Ringed Plover, Mediterranean Gull & Rook.
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| (c) Linda Copper - Peacock |
Wednesday 2nd August
Kit Britten: 4 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 4 Little Ringed Plover & 2 Hobby.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Mallard |
Thursday 3rd August
John Hunt: Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper & 4 Little Ringed Plover.
Jo Drummond: Spotted Flycatcher (17th site record), Willow Warbler & 2 Treecreeper.
Mark Elsoffer: Hobby.
Mark Elsoffer: 6+ Lesser Emperor.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Lesser Emperors |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Brimstone |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Green-veined White |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Large White |
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| (c) Mohamed Metawe - Common Blue Damselfly |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Common Tern |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Little Egret |
Friday 4th August
John Hunt: 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit & 3 Little Ringed Plover.
Roger Dickey: Redstart (13th site record).
Roger Dickey: Boreal Bramble (Rubus nemoralis) - new for site.
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| (c) John Hunt - Black-tailed Godwit |
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| (c) Mohamed Metawe - Common Tern |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Roe Deer |
Saturday 5th August
Richard Horton: 3 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover & Treecreeper.
Sunday 6th August
Peter Brown: 2 Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover & 3 Little Ringed Plover.
Richard Horton: 3 Green Sandpiper.
Murray Nurse: Spotted Flycatcher (18th site record) & 2 Peregrine.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Black-tailed Godwit |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Hobby |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Tufted Duck |
Monday 7th August
Peter Brown: Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, Hobby & Peregrine.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Green Sandpiper |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Blackcap |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Song Thrush |
Tuesday 8th August
Richard Horton: 2 Common Sandpiper & 3 Green Sandpiper.
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Roe Deer |
Wednesday 9th August
Richard Horton: 2 Common Sandpiper & 3 Green Sandpiper.
Alex Press: Great Black-backed Gull (126th bird species for 2023).
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| (c) Paul Habgood - Emperor |
Thursday 10th August
Richard Horton: 3 Green Sandpiper.
Dina Burford: Common Sandpiper.
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| (c) Malcolm Fincham - Wasp Spider |
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| (c) Jonathan Durham - Buzzards |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Common Blues |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Ruddy Darter |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Common Sandpiper |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Roe Deer |
Friday 11th August
Mark Elsoffer: 5 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Spotted Flycatcher (19th site record) & 2 Hobby.
Roger Dickey (all ringed): 12 Reed Warbler, 4 Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, Garden Warbler, 14 Chiffchaff, 5 Willow Warbler & 5 Blue Tit.
Mark Elsoffer: 4 Lesser Emperor.
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| (c) Keith Cogan - Ruddy Darter |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Bird Ringing |
Saturday 12th August
Mark Elsoffer: 2 Hobby & Peregrine.
Massive thanks to the 17 volunteers who turned out for our work party today. We did a litter pick & cut back along the paths. Delighted as always to be joined by a Duke of Edinburgh Award student & a young lad working towards his scout badges, as well as 2 new volunteers.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Volunteers Tea Break |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Meadow Brown |
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| (c) Amber Homersham - Pellucid Hoverfly |
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| (a) Amber Homersham - Swift |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Sparrowhawk mobbed by Magpies |
Sunday 13th August
Kit Britten: 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Snipe, Little Grebe & Pheasant.
Peter Brown: Hobby & Peregrine.
Richard Seargent: 3 Willow Warbler & Treecreeper.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Flax |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Peregrine |
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| (c) Emma Parkes - Wasp Spider |
Monday 14th August
P Jones: 2 Green Sandpiper.
Tuesday 15th August
Paul Bamford: Brown Hairstreak - first of the year.
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Common Darter |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Green-veined White |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Morning Dew |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Morning Dew |
Wednesday 16th August
Leonard Winchcombe: Mandarin (female, 15th site record. 127th bird species for 2023).
Kit Britten: 3 Green Sandpiper, Pochard & 4 Willow Warbler.
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| (c) Clare Dell - Migrant Hawker |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Coots |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Long-tailed Tit |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Misty Morning |
Thursday 17th August
Mark Elsoffer: Ring-necked Parakeet (28th site record).
Kit Britten: Green Sandpiper & 2 Pochard.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Great Crested Grebes |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Nuthatch |
Friday 18th August
Richard Seargent: Green Sandpiper & Ringed Plover.
Saturday 19th August
Richard Horton: Ruff (18th site record. 128th species for 2023).
Peter Brown: 2 Green Sandpiper & Ringed Plover.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Ruff |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Great Crested Grebes |
Sunday 20th August
Mark Elsoffer: 2 Green Sandpiper & Turnstone (19th site record. 129th species for 2023).
Sean Foote: Ruff & 2 Hobby.
Kit Britten: Pochard & 3 Swift.
Mark Elsoffer: Willow Emerald Damselflies - pair copulating.
Sean & Abi Foote: The Bee-grabber Fly (Conops ceriaeformis), Dull-vented Sharp-tailed Bee (Coelioxys elongata), The Chalcid wasp (Brachymeria tibialis), Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris) and Pale Flax (Linum bienne) - five new species for site.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Ruddy Darter |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Willow Emerald Damselflies |
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| (c) Sean Foote - Bee-grabber Fly |
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| (c) Abi Foote - Turnstone |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Fox |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Mute Swans |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Morning Dew |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Morning Dew |
Monday 21st August
Richard Horton: Wood Sandpiper (36th site record), Mandarin (f) & Wheatear.
Peter Brown: Whinchat (130th species for 2023).
Anon: Green Sandpiper.
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Small Copper |
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| (c) David Glew - Common Darters |
Tuesday 22nd August
Richard Horton: Black-tailed Godwit, Whinchat, Wheatear, Hobby & Peregrine.
Peter Brown: 3 Green Sandpiper & Spotted Flycatcher (20th site record).
Richard Horton: Brown Hairstreak.
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Greylag Geese |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Wasp Spider |
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| (c) Steve Walsh - Kingfisher |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Rabbit |
Wednesday 23rd August
Richard Horton: 2 Green Sandpiper & Hobby.
Jon Hawkins: Peregrine.
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Peregrine |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Geese over the Workings |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Great Crested Grebes |
Thursday 24th August
Mark Elsoffer: 6 Green Sandpiper, Mandarin (f), Yellow Wagtail, 2 juv Stonechats & 2 Hobby.
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Geese Arriving |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Green Sandpiper |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Mandarin |
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| (c) Paul Mannering - Brown Hairstreak Egg |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Hobby |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Rabbit |
Friday 25th August
Mark Elsoffer: 5 Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Arctic Tern (32nd record for site), Peregrine & Hobby.
Richard Seargent: 4 Stonechat (2 juvs) & Swift.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Common Darter |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Kingfisher |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Green Sandpipers |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Lizard |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Greylag Geese |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Reed Warbler |
Saturday 26th August
Mark Elsoffer: 4 Green Sandpiper, Dartford Warbler, 5 Yellow Wagtail (over), 4 Stonechat (2 juvs), Swift & Hobby.
Richard Seargent: Ringed Plover.
Mark Elsoffer: Clouded Yellow.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Kingfisher |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Canada Geese |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Great Crested Grebe |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Tufted Duck |
Sunday 27th August
Mark Elsoffer: 3 Pochard, 2 Dartford Warbler, Whinchat, 3+ Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 6 Stonechat (4 juvs) & Hobby.
Kit Britten: Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper & Ringed Plover.
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Morning Dew |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Wasp |
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| (c) Andy Glencross - Grass Snake |
Monday 28th August
Mark Elsoffer: Yellow Wagtail.
Susan Chadwick: Hobby.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Great Crested Grebes |
Tuesday 29th August
Mark Elsoffer: 4 Green Sandpiper, Mandarin (f), Yellow Wagtail (over), Dartford Warbler, 6 Stonechat (4 juvs), 10 Swift, Hobby & Peregrine
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Migrant Hawker |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Morning Dew |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Morning Dew |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Morning Dew |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Sparrowhawk |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Hobby |
Wednesday 30th August
Mark Elsoffer: 4 Green Sandpiper, 3 Whinchat, Wheatear & Yellow Wagtail.
Richard Horton: Dartford Warbler.
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| (c) Paul Bamford - Reed Bed Work Party |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Green Sandpiper |
Thursday 31st August
Mark Elsoffer: 3 Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, 6 Stonechat (4 juvs), Whitethroat & Hobby.
