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.
Thursday 1st February
Mark Elsoffer: 2 Green Sandpiper, 6+ Snipe, Dartford Warbler, 2 Raven & Peregrine.
Peter Brown: 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Dina Burford: Goldcrest.
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| (c) Dina Burford - Dartford Warbler |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Stonechat |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Sunset |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Great Spotted Woodpeckers |
Friday 2nd February
Dina Burford: Shelduck.
A massive thank you to the 19 volunteers, including the Surrey Choices Growth Team, who spent today coppicing along the river and using the cut wood to build a dead hedge.
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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 - Shelduck |
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| (c) Jonathan Durham - Goldfinch |
Saturday 3rd February
Anon: 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Sunday 4th February
Simon Stacey: 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Monday 5th February
John Hunt: Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
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| (c) John Hunt - Black-necked Grebes |
Tuesday 6th February
Peter Brown: 3 Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Song Thrush |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Tufted Ducks |
Wednesday 7th February
Peter Brown: Dunlin, 4 Snipe & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Thursday 8th February
Thanks to the rangers and volunteers from the Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership for removing tree protectors from the Bat Field today.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - BVCP |
Friday 9th February
Colin Varndell: 2 Black-necked Grebe.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Lord Len & Patch Cmdr |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Starlings |
Saturday 10th February
Dina Burford: 30+ Snipe.
Mark Elsoffer: Jack Snipe, Water Rail, 6 Stonechat & 2 Peregrine.
Malcolm Fincham: 3 Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
A huge thank you to the 18 volunteers who spent today cutting willow in the reed beds. Great to be joined by so many families and DofE students.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Malcolm Fincham - Black-necked Grebes |
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| (c) Gillian Bamford - Blossom |
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| (c) Myung-hye Chun - Ballooning Spiders |
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| (c) Amber Homersham - Peregrine |
Sunday 11th February
Peter Brown: 2 Black-necked Grebe & Mediterranean Gull.
Richard Horton: Jack Snipe.
Dina Burford: Green Sandpiper & Snipe.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Long-tailed Tit |
Monday 12th February
Don Lemmon: Jack Snipe, 2 Black-necked Grebe & Dartford Warbler.
Peter Brown: 2 Green Sandpiper.
Susan Keirnan: 2 Raven.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Deer |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Grey Wagtail |
Tuesday 13th February
Anon: 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Wednesday 14th February
Peter Brown: 2 Black-necked Grebe.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Carrion Crow |
Thursday 15th February
Peter Brown: Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Dina Burford: 2 Snipe.
Dina Burford: Red Admiral & Brimstone (first of year).
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| (c) Rebecca Haskell - Crocus |
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| (c) Dina Burford - Stonechat |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Fieldfare |
Friday 16th February
Mark Elsoffer: 2 Black-necked Grebe & c200 Fieldfare.
Thanks to the 19 volunteers, including the Surrey Choices Growth Team, who spent today chopping up nestbox parts ready for tomorrow’s Nestbox Buildathon at the Kiln.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
Saturday 17th February
What a great turnout we had today for our Nestbox Buildathon at the Kiln - over 100 people took part building and decorating 100 nest boxes for the local community. Great to be working in partnership again with Surrey Hills Society and Surrey Choices. We so enjoy working with both teams, and we’re looking forward to developing our partnership moving forward. Especially if Surrey Choices keep buying us cakes!
Thanks to the Badshot Lea Community Association Garden for opening up and helping out. Thanks to Katie and Debbie for expertly running the box decorating. And thanks to Dina (for being the one organised person in a sea of chaos), Andy for being teaboy, Kelly for her delicious cakes, Don for collecting & returning the marquee, and all of the other volunteers who helped make it such a big success.
We hope all the garden birds in Badshot Lea and Aldershot enjoy their new homes. Do send us photos of your boxes up in your gardens, and let us know if they get used.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Nestbox Buildathon |
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(c) Mark Elsoffer - Nestbox Buildathon
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(c) Mark Elsoffer - Nestbox Buildathon
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(c) Mark Elsoffer - Nestbox Buildathon
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(c) Mark Elsoffer - Nestbox Buildathon
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(c) Mark Elsoffer - Nestbox Buildathon
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| (c) Clare Power - 1st Aldershot Brownies |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Great Crested Grebe |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Grey Heron |
Sunday 18th February
Peter Brown: 2 Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Colin Varndell: Little Grebe & 2 Siskin.
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Great Crested Grebe |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Stonechat |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Tufted Duck |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Siskin |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Siskin |
Monday 19th February
Mike Huddie: 2 Black-necked Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff & Green Woodpecker.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Black-necked Grebes |
Tuesday 20th February
Peter Brown: 2 Green Sandpiper & 2 Black-necked Grebe.
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| (c) Dave Binks - Roe Deer |
Wednesday 21st February
No reports.
Thursday 22nd February
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Sunset over the Meadow |
Friday 23rd February
M Scott: 3 Siskin.
Anon: 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Ruben Cowley: Kingfisher.
Mark Elsoffer: 6 Snipe.
A huge thank you to the sixteen volunteers, including the wonderful Surrey Choices Growth Team, who spent today cutting and burning willow in the reed beds. This is our last willow cutting work party of the winter as bird nesting season starts next week. I think it’s been our best winter yet for willow cutting. The reed beds look wonderful. Thanks to our Friday Irregulars and the Growth Team for all of their hard work.
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Mark Elsoffer - Work Party |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Egyptian Goose |
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(c) Colin Varndell - Nuthatch
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| (c) Peter Bowles - Reed Bunting |
Saturday 24th February
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Great Crested Grebes |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Great Crested Grebe |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Tufted Duck |
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(c) Wild Cam - Reed Bunting
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| (c) Chris Marney - Kestrel |
Sunday 25th February
Peter Brown: 2 Black-necked Grebe.
Richard Seargent: Green Sandpiper.
Colin Varndell: Snipe.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Blackbird |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Assorted Ducks |
Monday 26th February
Richard Horton: Green Sandpiper.
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| (c) Cat Lawton - Woodland Track |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Fieldfare |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Shoveler |
Tuesday 27th February
Richard Horton: 2 Green Sandpiper.
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Reed Bunting |
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| (c) Colin Varndell - Wren |
Wednesday 28th February
John Hunt: 2 Green Sandpiper & 2 Snipe.
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Great Crested Grebe |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Great Crested Grebe |
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| (c) Jon Hawkins - Great Crested Grebe |
Thursday 29th February
No reports.
