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.
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.
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| (c) Plastic Free Farnham |
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.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Surrey Choices Growth Team |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Fieldfare |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Grey Herons |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Siskin |
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.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Work Party |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Goldfinch |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Song Thrush |
Sunday 3rd December
Peter Brown: Green Sandpiper & Snipe.
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Mute Swan |
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.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Chaffinch |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Grey Wagtail |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Grey Heron & Little Egret |
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.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Black-necked Grebe |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Tufted Ducks |
Saturday 9th December
Richard Seargent: Black-necked Grebe.
Sunday 10th December
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Little Egret |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Tufted Duck |
Monday 11th December
Peter Brown: 8 Snipe & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Richard Horton: Green Sandpiper.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Snipe |
Tuesday 12th December
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Cormorant |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Pochard |
Wednesday 13th December
Colin Varndell: Green Sandpiper & Snipe.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Green Sandpiper |
Thursday 14th December
Mark Elsoffer: Green Sandpiper, 12 Snipe, Jack Snipe, 2 Black-necked Grebe, Ring-necked Parakeet (30th site record) & Peregrine.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Mute Swans |
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!
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Work Party Preparations |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Snipe Survey |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Work Party |
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!
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Work Party |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
Sunday 17th December
Peter Brown: 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Snipe & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Patrick Rollinson: Cetti's Warbler & 34 Fieldfare.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Coot |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Egyptian Geese |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Tufted Duck |
Monday 18th December
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Grey Heron |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Tufted Duck |
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.
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| (c) John Hunt - Black-necked Grebe |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Mute Swan |
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(c) Jon Hawkins - Red Kite
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Mute Swan |
Thursday 21st December
Colin Varndell: Green Sandpiper.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Fox |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Horton's Mound |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Song Thrush |
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.
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| (c) Andrew Platt - Badhamia utricularis |
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| (c) Andrew Platt - Trichia decipiens |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Silt Pond at Sunrise |
Saturday 23rd December
Peter Brown: 2 Black-necked Grebe.
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| (c) Roger Dickey - Goldcrest |
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| (c) Roger Dickey - Goldcrest |
Sunday 24th December
Mark Elsoffer: Green Sandpiper, 2 Black-necked Grebe, 5 Siskin, 2 Stonechat & 60 Fieldfare.
Sarah Slingo: Snipe.
Monday 25th December
Jon_ffc: Black-necked Grebe & Caspian Gull (17th record for site, 137th bird species for 2023).
Tuesday 26th December
Peter Brown: Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Patrick Mooney: 2+ Siskin.
Colin Varndell: Coal Tit.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Coal Tit |
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| (c) Patrick Mooney - Gadwall |
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| (c) Patrick Mooney - Siskin |
Wednesday 27th December
Mark Elsoffer: Green Sandpiper, 2 Black-necked Grebe & Pintail (drake, 22nd record for site, 138th bird species for 2023).
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Robin |
Thursday 28th December
Mark Elsoffer: 3 Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 2 Black-necked Grebe, Coal Tit, 2 Siskin, Raven & 2 Peregrine.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Black-necked Grebe |
Friday 29th December
Mark Elsoffer: 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Black-necked Grebe & 2 Stonechat.
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Silt Pond |
Saturday 30th December
Peter Brown: 3 Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Geth Tillin: 3 Rook.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Ray Hard at Work |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Red Kite |
Sunday 31st December
Peter Brown: 2 Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Goldfinch |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Grey Wagtail |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Mute Swan |
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