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Newsletter 13 WYCOMBE WILDLIFE \I" ./ ,,·s ,=_I/If ~ I: no.13 JANUARY1994 High Wycombe, HP11 1ax Past Successes and ~uture C/ia[fenges The past year was busy a one, with all the activities connected with our Wildlife Garden Competition and the HEDGEROWS survey of the District boundary hedge. Now the organization is in place, we BASS Wildlife hope to repeat the Garden Competi­ Action Fund grant tion this year, to encourage more for Sheepridge people to garden for wildlife. development. 31 Update: We W.W. However, a new exciting opportunity continue our has arisen. Our application for a grant Survey. 32 for the development of our reserve at Sheepridge, Little Marlow has been Flora & fauna: selected, out of 85 projects, and we HEDGEROWS for shall receive sponsorship of £1000 from butterflies. 33 BASS pie, under their Wildlife Action Fund, which is administered by RSNC. Wildlife Gardening: The Sheepridge Project will be Some questions and promoted in our next Newsletter but a answers. 34-35 couple of work parties have already taken place with students from the The GREAT HEDGE Berkshire College of Agriculture. SURVEY - How Needless to say we are delighted with Vice-President of RSNC, Michael green is Wycombe's the news of this ,grant, and thank Palin (on left), shakes hands with boundary ? 36-37 BASS pie for their ,generosity. WyUWG Vice-Chairman, Angus Idle, during the presentation of the Bass Historic Another company we have to thank is Wildlife Action Fund Awards, held HEDGEROWS 38 Axa Equity and Law , who have at Carnley Street Nature Reserve, Wildlife Reports - sponsored not only the current Newsletter, but also the accompanying near King's Cross, London, on Sands Bank & Penn Spring programme sheet. We are most 11th. October 1993. Wood 39 grateful. Pat Morris Wildlife Notice Board This issue generously sponsored by AXAEQUITY & LAW - - 1 •__ l!!f_,_ · -~ - --Update---- •----~-·•- Members' meeting - surveying the problem High Wycombe, like any town, found any. It was so complicated consists of an intimate mixture of that many of us were frightened buildings, open spaces, roads, rail­ to attempt any surveying. Wycombe Urban Wildlife ways and footpaths, developed land Group is a voluntary or waste and derelict places. So at a recent evening meeting, at organimtion the OBJECT Because wildlife doesn't recognize which I am very pleased to report of which is to further the ecology and knowledge of any of these preceding categories, it that nearly a dozen members came the urban and fringe areas often puts down its roots in the along, we discused Biological of High Wycombe, most unlikely spots. We have had a Surveying. We still have the Buckinghamshire; to con­ long term plan, since the inception ambition to map all the Wildlife in serve, protect, restore and create wildlife habitats; to of the Group, to survey our town and around the town, so that if encourage colonization and and its immediate surroundings to things happen, like the possibility survival of all plant and discover what its r.==============~ of the M40 being animal life in such areas wildlife consists We still have the ambition moved, or a new and to promote the educat­ ion of the public in matters of & where it is. to map all the Wildlife in discount ware- pertaining to urban wildlife house is planned, and its conservation. Our plan was and around the town we will know that those who beforehand what Within Wycombe District -=--------=----------------=-wildlife is either in danger from the Group aims to: could would walk throughout the • Survey and map wildlife area and colour large scale maps to the development or could be habitats. show the location of wildlife encouraged with careful planning. • Protect important wild­ habitats. Unfortunately the scheme We will have to simplify the sur­ life sites. vey for a start to encourage more • Study wildlife sites and adopted was too ambitious. It inc­ their associated wildlife. luded colour codes for every con­ of you to take part, and come the • Manage wildlife sites and ceivable habitat type, we could spring we will organize some associated flora and fauna. even have shown the sea shore and training sessions to help you find • Stimulate public interest in wildlife & its conservation coal mine waste heaps if we had & map our wildlife. Angus Idle. • Encourage wildlife gardening. • Co-operate with other -reQti nof~ WiiatifeAn~gt)('grfo • groups with similar aims. • Promote the objectives of Ctil,t-diof En~<1na rirtt Sail.Xi. the Group. • Encourage active partic­ ipation in conservation of On 20th. November 1993 members of all persons and groups and There are moves afoot to restart WyUWG with parents and children provide appropriate training from the school created a wildlife area to that end the WYCOMBE WATCH group. (A detailed copy of the aims WATCH is the junior section of in the comer of the school grounds. is available on request) the Royal Society for Nature The area was planted with trees and a Conservation (RSNC) and is for wetland area was dug out, lined and Wycombe Wildlife News is refilled. One area of the trees will be published 3 times a year to youngsters between the ages of 5 coppiced, while others will be allowed promote the Group 's activ­ and 15. We hope to be able to to grow on as standards. ities and inform members & announce the first meeting in the A meadow area will be planted the public of its progress. next Newsletter. Those interested next year from plants grown from seed Editor: Pat Morris. should contact Elaine Tague at the by the children. Maurice. Produced by Maurice Young. Countryside Centre Printed by: on 0494 536930. ""'"'c'~";•;Hn~•;·;·;•;nm;;;;;;:m~•;·;~u;;;;~"'""]I WDC Design & Print. lHlltltlllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUl"IHIIIIIIHIIIIHIHttl11HHIHIIIIHHIIIJIIIIIHIIIHHIIIIIHIUl11111 Illustrations by: Pat Morris , Frances Wilding & Maurice. Views expressed in the newsletter are th~ of the authors and not necessarily those of the Group. Photo: L.P.A International For the purposes of management of the Group membership information is held on computer. Photographers. Any members who object to their membership details being held in this way should notify the Secretary . Printed on A recycled paper "II~ - - 1 1 -•- ~ - -"' '· --- Ploraand fauna ---llllliil •-.. ...:\ 1.--•- !J-{ec[gerOUJs-good for '13uttetf{iesanrf Mot/is or butterflies and moths the By the time the leaves are well hedgerow is an extended developed disturbing branches on a F"woodland edge" habitat with its hedge can reveal several species of varying conditions of shelter (sunshine moth, which hide there in the daytime, BUTTERFLY & shade) and diversity of vegetation. I with names like Clouded Silver, CONSERVATION will take you through the year and Twinspot Carpet, Yellow Shell and any formerly known as give you a glimpse of the insects you number of the Pug moths - there is a might encounter along a hedgerow. wealth of shape, colour and life-cycles the Moths have a much longer season to explore. British Butterfly than butterflies and many species are During midsummer a moth that Conservation Society active early and late---------- .. may well come to our notice is (BBC$) in the year. So our Bue~tl]orl) the Lackey, its larvae live in promotes the year starts during brown silken webs. When the January & February caterpillars have eaten all the conservation with the unusual food in one web they move on of moths as well sight of the Early~~- .- f and spin another and soon the as butterflies. Moth fluttering in \}a r unfortunate hawthorn, on our car headlights, which they are feeding, is left as we travel along Einx with no foliage at all, but is a lane bordered by 3 covered by these brown threads. hedges. Females of tl]efood plai}t of Hairstreaks are rare, possibly this species are tf7eBrimstOQ0 is overlooked butterflies, which wingless and sit /T\OSt live on mature hedgerows. The waiting on the eoQSpieuouswt,0Q Black Hairstreak can be found The local group of bushes for the males iQfruit in North Bucks on blackthorn Butterfly to come along. (sloe), whilst the similar Brown The first butterflies we notice will Hairstreak is virtually absent from this Conservation, have hibernated through the winter part of the country. A few White the Upper Thames months. Fine spring days bring Letter Hairstreaks Branch, out Brimstones, Small Tortoise- survive on elm is very active and shells & Peacocks all hungrily that has regrown last August 11their 11 looking for early flowers. following the However, they do not lay their ravages of Dutch Prestwood Picnic eggs until April or May when Elm Disease. Site was designated the leaves of their food plants Purple Hairstreaks a Local Nature begin to develop. Brimstones inhabit oak trees, Reserve search out a nondescript the caterpillars hedgerow shrub, the purging eating the leaves buckthorn, laying their large, and the adults yellow eggs on the topmost feeding on the leaves of new shoots. honeydew secreted Another welcome spring by aphids. sight is the Orange Tip butterfly In late autumn flying up and down the hedge- hedgerows may row looking for its food plant, .....,__________ ___.provide places for Anyone who wants Jack-by- the-hedge, where once again, butterflies to hibernate - Brimstones in more details of their its large orange eggs can easily be among ivy leaves and Commas down activities or is found Only one of the white among the dead leaves in the foot of interested in helping butterflies breeds in significant the hedge. with work at this site numbers along the hedgerow, this is Finally, we return to the fluttering the pretty Green-Veined White which, moths in our car headlights, long may should contact Ron as its shares the same food plants, is our hedgerow reserves remain.
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