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Oxfordshire Recorders Conference Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Photograph by Pat Clissold Thomas. Hopefully, they projects this year including Welcome will make an appearance the Berkshire Ancient at the office soon so we Woodland Inventory and As the nights start drawing can meet him and get him dealing with high numbers in it’s now time to think started early with spread of data search requests, about getting all those sheets and GIS! which seem to be ever records that you have rising. We also welcomed some been collecting over spring new members to the Next year we are hoping to and summer into our new TVERC team; Caroline run some training courses online recording website. Coleman who is covering on surveying and More information later in my role as Projects identification of various the newsletter. Manager until September species and habitats. So There have been quite a and Hannah Boylan who is keep your eye out as few changes to TVERC staff our new Administration spaces will be limited. over the last few months. Officer. You can find out Hope you all have a lovely Camilla went on maternity more about them in the Christmas and happy new leave and gave birth to a newsletter. year. beautiful boy named The team have been busy Benjamin, Rhys, Gareth Lucy Lush, Acting Director working on various I N S I D E THIS ISSUE: TVERC Online Recording Magnificent 2 Hurrah, after a long gestation period, which makes Camilla’s pregnancy look quite short we Meadows finally have an online recording site. This can be found at sightings.tverc.org. Highlights from the 2 LWS Surveys Berkshire 4 Recorders Our New Projects 4 Manager Once registered you can add single species records or species lists and it uses clever mapping technology to make it easy to find grid references. You can either enter the grid reference iSpot—Open 5 and the map goes to the location or you can search for a place, zoom in, and click the map to University Website produce a grid reference. We would welcome any feedback so we can improve the site. Our new 5 Administration Cherwell District 6 Habitat Mapping There are a multitude of online recording sites now including iRecord and Living Record. We do collect records from these sites so the key thing is not to enter records onto more than one site. P A G E 2 Magnificent Meadows Campaign Help Save Our Magnificent Meadows! The Cotswolds element of Save Our Magnificent Meadows is being delivered by Are you interested in making a difference the CCB, who are looking to recruit local and helping to conserve and restore your volunteers and community groups to help local meadows? Do you enjoy meeting like- carry out practical conservation tasks, minded people, learning new skills and species surveys, and run events. Anybody spending time in the great outdoors? If so, who is interested in helping out should there is a new project on your doorstep, contact Katherine Holmes (the Community Photograph by Mark Connelly which needs your help! Engagement Officer) on Wildlife-rich grasslands were once [email protected] widespread throughout the UK, however or 01451 862 038. due to changing land management The CCB also aims to restore up to 1,125 practices, this habitat has undergone a hectares of wildflower grassland across the serious decline. Now only 2% of the Cotswolds by collecting seed from high meadows that existed in the 1930s remain. quality wildflower grasslands and sowing The Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural this seed over nearby grasslands of poorer Beauty (AONB) contains a significant quality. Any landowners interesting in proportion of this remaining grassland, offering up their sites as donor or receptor “Do you enjoy concentrated along the Cotswold scarp and areas for grassland restoration should meeting like- river valleys. contact Eleanor Reast (the Conservation minded people, Save our Magnificent Meadows Officer) on (www.magnificentmeadows.org.uk) is a [email protected] or learning new skills nationwide partnership project led by 01451 862 036. and spending time Plantlife, which comprises 11 organisations in the great including the Cotswolds Conservation Board (CCB) and is primarily funded by the outdoors?” Heritage Lottery Fund. The project is working with communities to protect, conserve and restore their local meadows. Kirtlington Quarry Sweep Highlights from Local Wildlife netting during an Site Surveys invertebr ate survey This year TVERC carried out butterfly surveys and general invertebrate near surveys of 53 existing and surveys. Most of the species data has now Crawley proposed Local Wildlife Sites in been entered, with over 6000 records Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Thanks added. to the help of our volunteers, These included Willow meadows which is a specialist species group surveys species-rich wetland beside the Shill Brook were also completed on several at the western edge of Carterton. Surveys sites including bird surveys, Continued on page 3 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 P A G E 3 carried out in May and July this that have been restored on the year found a good range of site and found the Oxfordshire wildflowers including Rare Plant Register species meadowsweet, black knapweed, trailing St. John’s-wort. Acid common marsh-bedstraw, grassland is a rare habitat in Oxfordshire and this area included a range of typical species such as Established heather, common natural centaury, heath habitat— bedstraw, tormentil and Ancient heath speedwell. Woodlands Over in Berkshire we in March surveyed a range of number of woodland sites Species-rich wet grassland including from woodlands to wetlands abundant black knapweed and mead- and grasslands. Sites of importance to local wildlife owsweet at Willow meadows, come in all sorts of guises: Carterton. Long established habitats such as the greater bird’s-foot trefoil and ancient woodlands tufted vetch. They also have we visited in purple moor-grass which is a less Bracknell to young common species in Oxfordshire. sites (in the grand Trailing St. John’s-wort, North scheme of ecology) such as The site provides habitat for birds Leigh Common including reed bunting, with 26 Thames Valley Park that bird species recorded during the over recent decades has site visit in May. been restored from industrial landuse into a We surveyed Wigwell in high wildlife value nature Charlbury on a rainy day in “Most of the reserve. August. The site is known for its species data has population of meadow clary but Small sites such as the the grassland is species-rich also Road Side Nature Reserves now been entered, including field scabious, lady’s we surveyed in West bedstraw, meadow vetchling, Berkshire to large with over 6000 salad burnet, bird’s-foot-trefoil, floodplains and parks in common restharrow and burnet Reading and Wokingham. records added.” saxifrage. Highly species diverse A joint survey of North Leigh single habitats such as Common with the Wychwood chalk grassland to diversity Flora Group updated our records of habitats in former for the areas of acid grassland parkland in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Created No matter what guise the habitat— LWS comes in it is always of high local importance to Thames the wildlife and often the Valley Park human population too, be that local residents, college students, business park Species-rich grassland at Wigwell with employees or visitors to field scabious, red bartsia and ladies Berkshire! bedstraw P A G E 4 Berkshire Recorders and Local Nature Partnership Conference: Life along Berkshires Rivers Following the recorded in Berkshire in the last year and success of last the news that TVERC online recording is years joint now live the afternoon saw a series of talks conference with centred around Berkshire’s rivers. Todd the Berkshire Sullivan from Thames Valley Park kicked off LNP we decided the afternoon demonstrating the to once again importance and value of the nature reserve join forces with in the park to wildlife and employees. the LNP and The Lesley Atkinson then gave an overview of a Oracle. In the successful project engaging with a wide morning the diversity of people, along the River LNP launched Lambourn in Newbury (see TVERC ‘The Natural environment in Berkshire: Newsletter Summer 2014). Every Biodiversity Strategy 2014 – 2020’ conference should have a charismatic “Every followed by a talk on Climate Change charterer – this year it was Ratty the water and Nature. As ever the workshop vole brought to us by Julia Lofthouse at conference sessions provided much discussion, this BBOWT with an over view of his ecology should have a year focusing on ‘Working Towards a and status in Berkshire. The day ended Shared Vision’, with groups considering with Thames Water providing an array of charismatic how we can increase habitat interesting information of the importance character – this connectivity by encouraging targeted of water and its associated ecology to the year it was habitat creation in the Berkshire’s region. Biodiversity Opportunity Areas and how Ratty the water Thank you to all those involved, both on to create ways to record the flow of the organisation front and the delegates, benefits and services that nature vole brought to for making the event a success and once provides. us by Julia at again bringing together people interested Over lunch, delegates had opportunity in natural history from across Berkshire. BBOWT” to network and view the displays put up Special thanks go to Annie English at the by various local natural history groups LNP for doing the conference in Berkshire. administration and Cliff Hilton at The Oracle for hosting the day. After an initial update on what’s been BS42020 Biodiversity – Code of practice for planning and development Just over a year ago the British projects and products that include Standards Institution (BSI) launched BS planning and development of new 42020, Biodiversity – Code of practice buildings, also extending to changes in for planning and development.
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