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.
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.
Sunday 1st September
Anon:3 Greenshank & Arctic Tern.
Noel Silver: Black Tern (17th record for site) & Hobby.
M Scott: 2 Green Sandpiper.
Kevin Duncan: Ruff (21st record for site, 130th bird species for 2024).
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| (c) Dina Burford - Greenshanks |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Mallard |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Meadow |
Monday 2nd September
Jon Jordan: Green Sandpiper, 10 Snipe & Arctic Skua (juvenile, 2nd record for site, 131st bird species for 2024).
Richard Horton: Ruff & 2 Greenshank.
Anon: Common Sandpiper & Common Tern.
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| (c) Jon Jordan - Arctic Skua |
Tuesday 3rd September
Richard Horton: 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank & 2 Hobby.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Roe Deer |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Sunrise |
Wednesday 4th September
Richard Horton: Spotted Redshank (juvenile, 4th record for site, 132nd bird species for 2024), Ruff, 2 Greenshank & Stonechat.
Anon: Common Sandpiper.
Josephine Snell: 2 Green Sandpiper & Snipe.
Dina Burford: Hobby.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Common Darters |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Hobby |
Thursday 5th September
Shaun Ferguson: Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank (juvenile), Garganey (juvenile, probably present since 28th August)
Richard Horton: Redshank, 4 Greenshank & Yellow-legged Gull.
Kevin Duncan: 6 Ringed Plover, 2 Sandwich Tern (13th record for site, 133rd bird species for 2024) & 3 Yellow Wagtail.
Josephine Snell: 3 Snipe.
Anon: 2 Common Tern.
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| (c) Shaun Ferguson - Sandwich Terns |
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| (c) Shaun Ferguson - Spotted Redshank |
Friday 6th September
Kevin Duncan: 2 Ringed Plover & Common Tern.
Mark Elsoffer: 5 Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Spotted Redshank, 3 Wigeon, Snipe & Wheatear.
Kit Britten: 5 Common Sandpiper & 4 Greenshank.
Don Lemmon: Ruff.
Thomas Gibson: 2 Yellow Wagtail & 3 Swift.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Ruff |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Wheatear |
Saturday 7th September
Mark Elsoffer: Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, Kingfisher & Wheatear.
Paul Bamford: Spotted Redshank.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Greenshank & Green Sandpiper |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Wheatear |
Sunday 8th September
Kevin Duncan: Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Garganey & Wheatear.
Thanks to the 7 volunteers who spent 7 hours marshalling the Farnham Pilgrims Marathon today.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Marathon Medal |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Wren |
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| (c) Melanie Nicholls - Common Darter |
Monday 9th September
Richard Horton: Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Garganey & Kingfisher.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Roe Deer |
Tuesday 10th September
No reports.
Wednesday 11th September
Richard Horton: 4 Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover & Raven.
Dina Burford: Brown Hairstreak.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Migrant Hawker |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Ringed Plover |
Thursday 12th September
Mark Elsoffer: 2 Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Stonechat & Hobby.
We had the pleasure of leading a guided walk for 30 people as part of Farnham Heritage Open Days and the Rushmoor Heritage Festival today.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Heritage Open Day Walk |
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| (c) Myung-hye Chun - Walkers avoid the ruts |
Friday 13th September
Leonard Winchcombe: 2 Green Sandpiper & Ringed Plover.
Thanks to the 18 volunteers who attended today's work party cutting back willow and bramble along the river. Great to be working with the Surrey Choices Growth Team.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
Thanks to Roger and Lord Len for ringing in the reedbeds this morning: 13 Chiffchaff; 10 Reed Warbler; 2 Sedge Warbler; 4 Cetti's Warbler; 4 Blue Tit, 1 Robin, 1 Dunnock & 1 Great Tit.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Colour-ringed Robin |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Fox |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Sparrowhawk |
Saturday 14th September
Don Lemmon: 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Snipe & 2 Hobby.
We had the pleasure of attending the Rushmoor Eco-Fair at Southwood Country Park today.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Rushmoor Eco-Fair |
Katie and Tim had a great time painting pebbles with the residents of Waverley Grange care home today.
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| (c) Bupa Waverley Grange - Katie's Visit |
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| (c) Bupa Waverley Grange - Katie's Visit |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Migrant Hawker |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Common Darter |
Sunday 15th September
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Reed Warbler |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Tufted Duck |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Little Grebe |
Monday 16th September
Paul Mattos: Cattle Egret (7th record for site).
Ruben Cowley: Common Sandpiper & 3 Meadow Pipit.
Dina Burford: Dartford Warbler.
Murray Nurse: Treecreeper.
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| (c) Paul Mattos - Cattle Egret |
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| (c) Megan Stiles' Daughter - Sunset |
Tuesday 17th September
Josh Brown: Kingfisher & Swift.
Wednesday 18th September
Thomas Forster: 3 Green Sandpiper.
Colin Varndell: Cattle Egret.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Roe Deer |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Cattle Egret |
Thursday 19th September
Mark Elsoffer: Green Sandpiper, Cattle Egret & 3 Hobby.
Leonard Winchcombe: Ringed Plover.
We had the pleasure of leading a guided walk for 8 members of Hartley Wintney U3A today.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Walkers |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Willow Emerald |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Cattle Egret |
Friday 20th September
Mark Elsoffer: Cattle Egret.
Murray Nurse: 2 Green Sandpiper & 8 Wigeon.
A huge thank you to the 39 volunteers who attended our Loddon Rivers Week work party today. We worked in partnership with the Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership, South East Rivers Trust, Surrey Choices & Surrey Hills Society, to clear a large section of the river of willow and rejuvenate the habitats. Unfortunately, we had to cut short the work party when we got hit by a tornado - everyone made it home safe, if a little wet.
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Work Party |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Work Party |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Work Party |
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| (c) Myung-Hye Chun - Work Party |
This evening we had the great pleasure of sharing the world premiere of our new movie with 160 invited guests at the Farnham Maltings.
'Our Meadow' is a wonderful short film by Farnham film-maker Josh Guyan and we're delighted to announce that it has been selected to be shown at two prestigious wildlife film festivals this year in Belgium and Slovakia. Following festival season we hope to arrange some public showings locally, and eventually the film will be online for all to see.
Well done Josh. Your movie is wonderful and you really captured the essence of what makes Tice's Meadow Nature Reserve a special place for us all.
Please check out Josh's website and Instagram for more of his work:
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Oscars Selfie |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Cattle Egret |
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| (c) Tony Sadler - Long-tailed Tit |
Saturday 21st September
Richard Horton: 3 Green Sandpiper & Cattle Egret.
Anon: Ring-necked Parakeet.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Stonechat |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Eastern Silt Pond |
Sunday 22nd September
Leonard Winchcombe: 9 Cattle Egret (new site record count and county record).
Dina Burford: 2 Green Sandpiper & 3 Snipe.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Cattle Egrets |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Cattle Egrets |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Cattle Egrets |
Monday 23rd September
Josephine Snell: Green Sandpiper & Cattle Egret.
Dina Burford: 4 Snipe.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Cattle Egret |
Tuesday 24th September
Josephine Snell: 2 Green Sandpiper.
A film crew from the One Show were filming on site today for a story about last Friday's tornado.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Grey Wagtail |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Tufted Duck |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - One Show Filming |
Wednesday 25th September
Dina Burford: Cattle Egret.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Cattle Egret |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Common Darter |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Grey Heron |
Thursday 26th September
Mark Elsoffer: Green Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin & 3 Snipe.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Flooding |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Dunlin |
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| (c) Adam Young - Roe Deer |
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| (c) Adam Young - Mallard |
Friday 27th September
Mark Elsoffer: Green Sandpiper & 500+ House Martin.
Dina Burford: 10 Wigeon.
A huge thank you to the 16 volunteers who worked hard in the rain today, including the amazing Growth Team from Surrey Choices. We cleared up after last Friday’s tornado and built a dead hedge with all of the willow we cut down along the river.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Volunteers |
Saturday 28th September
Peter Brown: Green Sandpiper.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Red Admiral |
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| (c) William Nicholls - Common Blue Damselfly |
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| (c) William Nicholls - Migrant Hawker |
Sunday 29th September
No reports.
Monday 30th September
No reports.
