October

Calendars for Sale

Our 2025 calendars are now on sale. Featuring a selection of wonderful photos taken on site in 2024.

• £8 - collected from Richard Horton (by arrangement) or from work parties.
• £10 - delivered (by arrangement, local to Badshot Lea only).
• £12 - posted.

If you would like one delivered or posted, please email:

ticesmeadowshop@gmail.com

All proceeds go towards our work at Tice's Meadow Nature Reserve.

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.

Tuesday 1st October

Richard Seargent: 3 Green Sandpiper.

Wednesday 2nd October

Josephine Snell: 2 Green Sandpiper.

Richard Hortin: 2 Sand Martin.

(c) Colin Varndell - Wren

(c) Colin Varndell - Red Kite

Thursday 3rd October

Dina Burford: 2 Green Sandpiper & Whinchat.

A huge thank you to the team of 12 from Sky TV who joined us for a corporate volunteering day today. Together with 7 of our irregulars we cleared a huge amount of willow from the reedbeds to enable this nationally important habitat to continue thriving.

(c) Mark Elsoffer - Sky TV Volunteers

We had the great pleasure of leading a guided walk and scavenger hunt for 18 Beavers from 12th Farnham Scouts this evening.

(c) Mark Elsoffer - Beavers

(c) Dina Burford - Whinchat

Friday 4th October

Dina Burford: Whinchat.

Roger and his ringing team ringed the following birds this morning: 16 Chiffchaff, 3 Reed Bunting, 2 Reed Warbler, 3 Blue Tit, 1 Robin, 1 Blackcap & 1 Stonechat. Retrapped: 1 Blue Tit & 1 Cetti's Warbler.

A big thank you to the 21 volunteers who spent today cutting down willow along the river and building a dead hedge with the arisings. Great as always to be joined by the wonderful Surrey Choices Growth Team.

(c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party

(c) Myung-hye Chun - Migrant Hawker

(c) Dina Burford - Stonechat

(c) Dina Burford - Whinchat

(c) Roger Dickey - Reed Warbler

(c) Roger Dickey - Reed Bunting

(c) Roger Dickey - Cetti's Warbler

Saturday 5th October

Peter Brown: 3 Green Sandpiper.

M Scott: 2 Stonechat & Reed Warbler.

Colin Varndell: 20 Sand Martin.

(c) Colin Varndell - Common Darter

(c) Colin Varndell - Meadow Sunrise

Sunday 6th October

John Hunt: 4 Green Sandpiper.

Dina Burford: Snipe.

Monday 7th October

Richard Horton: 4 Green Sandpiper & Ringed Plover.

Tuesday 8th October

No reports.

Wednesday 9th October

Peter Brown: 3 Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover & Common Tern (juv).

Myung-hye Chun: Blunt Webcap, Wood Pinkgill, Veiled Poison Pie, Bulbous Honey Fungus, Common Bonnet, Brick Tuft, Birch Knight, Scurfy Twiglet, Leopard Earthball, Grey Coral, Wrinkled Coral, Ochre Bracket, Oakmoss, Hammered Shield Lichen & Lecidella elaeochroma - all new species for site.

(c) Myung-hye Chun - Common Bonnett

(c) Myung-hye Chun - Birch Knight

(c) Myung-hye Chun - White Fibrecap

(c) Colin Varndell - Mallards

Thursday 10th October

Richard Horton: 2 Green Sandpiper & Sand Martin.

Friday 11th October

Peter Brown: 3 Green Sandpiper & Ringed Plover.

Dina Burford: Peregrine.

(c) Dina Burford - Ringed Plover

(c) Dina Burford - Gadwall

Saturday 12th October

Peter Brown: 3 Green Sandpiper & Ringed Plover.

Anon: Peregrine.

A big thank you to the 24 volunteers who attended our work party today - we cut & burnt a huge amount of willow. We were joined by a team from Surrey Choices, two DofE students, local families, some old faces, some new faces, and some very old faces.

(c) Colin Varndell - Work Party

(c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party

(c) Colin Varndell - Roe Deer Family

Sunday 13th October

John Hunt: 3 Green Sandpiper & Ringed Plover.

Spike Millington: 3 Pochard.

(c) Colin Varndell - Little Egret

Monday 14th October

Colin Varndell: Redwing.

Tuesday 15th October

No reports.

Wednesday 16th October

Richard Horton: 2 Yellow-legged Gull & 200+ Herring Gull.

(c) Colin Varndell - Great Tit

(c) Colin Varndell - Silt Pond

Thursday 17th October

Peter Brown: Ringed Plover.

(c) Colin Varndell - Speckled Wood

(c) Colin Varndell - Colour-ringed Robin AB

Friday 18th October

Mark Elsoffer: Peregrine.

Gillian Bamford: Common Stump Brittlestem & Sheathed Woodtuft - new species for site.

A big thank you to the 18 volunteers who spent today clearing along the river bank and building a dead hedge with the arisings. As always, great to be working alongside the amazing Surrey Choices Growth Team.

(c) Gillian Bamford - Work Party

(c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party

(c) Jill Holliday - Common Darter

(c) Dina Burford - Peregrine

(c) Gillian Bamford - Sheathed Woodtuft

(c) Gillian Bamford - Common Stump Brittlestem

(c) Colin Varndell - Starling

Saturday 19th October

Katie had the pleasure of visiting Waverley Grange Care Home again today - this time she helped the residents sculpt clay animals and put up a window bird-feeder.

(c) Bupa - Clay Animals

(c) Colin Varndell - Bat

Sunday 20th October

(c) Dina Burford - Kestrel

(c) Colin Varndell - Crooksbury Hill

Monday 21st October

(c) Dina Burford - Autumn Leaves

(c) Colin Varndell - Gadwall

(c) Colin Varndell - Grey Heron

Tuesday 22nd October

(c) Colin Varndell - First Light on the Workings

Wednesday 23rd October

No reports.

Thursday 24th October

(c) Colin Varndell - Gadwall

(c) Colin Varndell - Red Kite

Friday 25th October

Peter Brown: Green Sandpiper.

A massive thank you to the 20 volunteers who spent today cutting willow in the reedbeds. As always, a pleasure to be working alongside the wonderful Surrey Choices Growth Team.

(c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party

(c) Myung-hye Chun - Work Party

(c) Myung-hye Chun - Ochre Bracket

Saturday 26th October

Peter Brown: 3 Green Sandpiper.

(c) Colin Varndell - Lapwing

Sunday 27th October

Mark Elsoffer: 3 Little Egret.

(c) Dina Burford - Red Kite

(c) Colin Varndell - Little Grebe

(c) Colin Varndell - Mallard

Monday 28th October

No reports.

Tuesday 29th October

Peter Brown: Green Sandpiper.

(c) Rebecca Haskell - Newt

(c) Colin Varndell - Redwing

Wednesday 30th October

John Hunt: Green Sandpiper, 61 Lapwing, Little Egret, 33 Shoveler, 23 Gadwall, 26 Tufted Duck, 8 Teal, 11 Wigeon, 13 Pochard & Little Grebe.

(c) Colin Varndell - Ringed Robin AA

(c) Colin Varndell - Ringed Robin AB

(c) Colin Varndell - Ringed Robin AH

Thursday 31st October

(c) Dina Burford - Grey Heron