USEFUL CONTACTS BUTTERFLY AND MOTH EVENTS Contact details of Branch Committee members are displayed on the back cover of all Branch newsletters. The Branch runs butterfly walks and moth events Welcome to the throughout spring and summer - a list of all the The Branch Chair can be contacted at events is circulated each spring and is always on our [email protected] AND MIDDLESEX website. All our walks are ideal for beginners as well Hertfordshire & Middlesex Branch: as those more experienced. The programme covers a Website: www.hertsmiddx-butterflies.org.uk/index.php Branch of range of locations and habitats and targets both Facebook: www.facebook.com/ common and more specialised species. ButterflyConservationHertsMiddlesex Butterfly Conservation  Everyone is welcome, regardless of level of Twitter: www.twitter.com/Bc_HertsMiddx experience Butterfly Conservation :  Our events cover the whole Branch area, so at www.butterfly-conservation.org least one should be close to you Some other useful websites are:  Expert leaders will help you identify species and Herts Natural History Society: find less common species www.hnhs.org  These are social events, so you can learn from Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust: others e.g. about tips for butterfly photography www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk London Natural History Society:  Children are welcome, but must be www.lnhs.org.uk accompanied by an adult Hertfordshire & Middlesex Moth Group:  Our walks are free www.hertsmothgroup.org.uk

 Where we join with other organisations on their trips, their rules will apply, and are detailed in The 2016 book ‘Butterflies of Hertfordshire and Middlesex’, our events list and on the website. written by our Records Collator, Andrew Wood, is available  Safety tips are provided in our events list. from the Herts Natural History Society: www.hnhs.org/publications

All photos by Ian Small

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KEEPING YOU INFORMED RECORDING SOME GOOD BUTTERFLY SITES

There are lots of ways we keep you informed:- Recording is important - without data, we cannot Site Grid Ref. Brief Details monitor changes in butterfly populations or gauge  Our Branch newsletters are issued at least SP951129 HMWT reserve NW of Tring the impact of conservation activity or quantify the twice a year effect of environmental damage. Alexandra Park TQ296901 Park around Alexandra Palace in LB  Every spring we send you a full-colour Haringey  Everyone is encouraged to keep and to Annual Report that summarises the TL348106 HMWT reserve at Hertford submit records of their sightings fortunes of every butterfly species in our Heath, near Hertford area in the previous year (example page in  All sightings are kept on a Branch database Bricket Wood TL131017 Between and St Albans next panel) and contribute to the Annual Report Common

 Our website is full of information, including  Our records are shared with environmental Broxbourne TL323070 Large woodland complex W of Hoddesdon Woods (west car and S of Hertford about latest sightings, and we are also active records centres in Hertfordshire and in park) on Facebook and Twitter (all link details are London, and of course with Butterfly in the Useful Contacts panel of this leaflet) Conservation’s national database. Fir & Pond Woods TL277012 HMWT reserve 2 miles E of Potters Bar

Especially for new members..  You can join more formal recording Chalk Pit TL107299 HMWT reserve S of Hexton, turning off B655 We hold an annual ‘New Members’ Day’, usually schemes, e.g. the Wider Countryside in July. This event is targeted specifically at those Butterfly Scheme or Transect recording - Horsenden Hill TQ160845 Bisected by Horsenden Lane North new to butterflies, to provide them with contact our Records Collator for more between Perivale and Sudbury in LB Ealing information (contact details in the information about butterfly identification, Hounslow Heath TQ121748 Off Staines Road, Hounslow butterfly gardening, butterfly recording etc. newsletter) Millhoppers SP899148 Branch reserve close to Long Marston, There is a dedicated walk where we can discuss Pasture near Tring identification in the field, and butterfly photography. Nomansland TL170124 Between Wheathampstead and Sandridge Common Members’ Day & AGM Norton Green TL229231 W of A1M at . Accessed from This is our main event of the year, with guest (Cannocks Wood / byways south of Norton Green speakers, a photographic competition and lots Watery Grove) more. A great opportunity to meet fellow TL443257 HMWT reserve NW of Bishops Stortford members with a shared interest. Pishiobury Park TL475139 A country park just S of Sawbridgeworth

Small Tortoiseshell Ruislip Woods TQ080896 A complex of woods N of Ruislip along Ducks Hill Lane in LB Hillingdon

Southern Country TL473193 St Michael’s Mead on the S edge of Park Bishops Stortford TL347404 Downland W of Royston

Tower Hamlets TQ367823 Southern Grove E3, nr Mile End Central Cemetery Park line station Trent Park TQ280969 Near Cockfosters Piccadilly line station

Waterford Heath TL318150 HMWT reserve N of Hertford, access via Sacombe Road, not via Waterford