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Field Trips for 2017 Number 63 SURREY Skipper Spring/Summer 2017 49 field trips for 2017 Contents click to go directly to page Contacts......................2 Quiz & Photo Show ......11 Dates ........................23 Chairman's welcome ......3 Egg hunts ..................12 Swallowtail ................24 Simon Saville................4 White-letter Hairstreak 13 New members ............25 Digital Skipper ..............5 Butterflies in the Transect data..........25-29 David Gardner tribute ....6 Glasshouse 14 Butterfly surveys ........30 My camera ..................7 Obituaries ..................16 iRecord ....................30 Steve Wheatley ............8 Moths........................17 iRecorders ................31 Priority species ............9 Email appeal ..............18 Website ....................32 Transects ..................10 Field trips ..................19 Social media ..............32 Conservation Group......11 Weather Watch............23 Butterfly Surrey & SW London Conservation branch magazine Surrey Skipper 2 Spring 2017 Branch Committee LINK Committee emails Chair: Simon Saville (first elected 2016) 07572 612722 Conservation Adviser: Ken Willmott (1995) 01372 375773 County Recorder, WCBS Coordinator: Harry Clarke (2013) 07773 428935, 01372 453338 Field Trips Organiser: Mike Weller (1997) 01306 882097 Membership Secretary: Ken Owen (2015) 01737 760811 Moth Officer: Paul Wheeler (2006) 01276 856183 Secretary: Janet Cheney (2016) 01932 863668 Skipper Editor & Publicity Officer: Francis Kelly (2012) 07952 285661, 01483 278432 Transects Coordinator: Bill Downey (2015) 07917 243984, 020 8949 5498 Treasurer: Peter Camber (2011) 020 8224 2957 Oaken Wood: Harry Clarke & Bill Downey see above Social Media: Francis Kelly (& Mick Rock) see above Website: Francis Kelly & Ken Owen see above Other members: Malcolm Bridge (1999) 020 8289 3839 Geoff Eaton (2008) 07732 552411, 01483 723384 Clive Huggins (2014) 020 8942 7846 Jenny Shalom (2016) 07833 587279, 020 8392 9938 Other contacts County Moth Recorder: Graham Collins 020 8688 4539 BC Senior Regional Officer — South East: Steve Wheatley (2015) Media [email protected] Websites butterfly-conservation.org/surrey butterfly-conservation.org/surreymoths Recording irecord.org.uk Facebook Branch page Butterfly Conservation in Surrey Twitter @BC_Surrey Mick Rock’s group Surrey Butterflies @surreymoths Branch group Surrey Moths Surrey Skipper thank you to all contributors copy deadline published online Spring Feb 28 ..................mid-March ......................includes new season’s field trips Autumn Sep 30 ..................mid-October ......................previews AGM & Members’ Day I Front-page photo: Wood White male on Greater Stitchwort at Oaken Wood, winner of the Digital Photo Show Competition at Members’ Day, Nov 2016. David Hasell LINKS When reading on screen, click underlined link to visit webpage ©Surrey Skipper is published by Surrey & SW London branch of Butterfly Conservation, a charity registered in England & Wales (254937) and Scotland (SCO39268). Company limited by guarantee, registered in England (2206468). Registered office: Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset BH20 5QP Tel 01929 400209 Surrey Skipper 3 Spring 2017 Chairman’s welcome Simon Saville I WOULD like to start by moths in Surrey & SW London. thanking David Gardner, who This report will draw on served as Chairman of the transect data, other records, Branch for eight years. With information from the Surrey his leadership and energy the Moth Group and the Garden Branch has thrived, and you Moth Scheme to highlight can read more about this in trends and changes in Malcolm Bridge’s Members’ abundance and distribution. Day tribute on page 6. Steve Wheatley, our The strength of the Branch Regional Officer from Head was apparent when I attended Office, is finalising the South an Induction Day for new East Regional Action Plan Branch Chairs. This was hosted at Butterfly (RAP). This has been on hold while he has Conservation Head Office in Lulworth by been on sabbatical in New Zealand to Jim Asher, Chair of Council. We had the support the threatened Forest Ringlet opportunity to spend time with Julie (see page 8 and the national magazine). Williams (CEO), Sam Ellis (Director of The RAP will establish conservation Conservation & Regions), Nigel Bourn priorities for the next 5-10 years and will be (Director of Conservation Science & Policy), publicly launched when plans for all regions and other key staff. It was a very useful day, are complete. and I now feel well-connected with the As a Branch, we have committed £5,500 central team and the priorities of the to support the Small Blue "Stepping Stones" national organisation. project. This is a multi-partner landscape- We are one of a handful of branches with scale initiative linking habitats across well over 1,000 members, and our Surrey’s chalk downlands. It will benefit programme of field trips continues to be many species, in addition to the Small Blue. one of the most extensive, thanks to Mike Head Office will appoint a Project Officer in Weller’s hard work. The programme of 49 April if their funding application is walks for the coming season, on pages successful. We have also earmarked a 19-22, includes many “old favourites”, but £3,000 Branch commitment to a potential also has several new locations, which I Wood White project — also multi-partner encourage you to come and explore. and landscape-scale — and we expect an Very few branches can match our 93 update in April. transects that were walked in 2016. This Conservation work at our Oaken Wood success is largely down to the unstinting reserve has restarted, thanks to the efforts of Bill Downey, Transect commitment of Harry Clarke and Bill Coordinator — supported of course by the Downey and the support of some hardy many volunteers who walk transects volunteers. Oaken Wood, in the through the season. The data collected on Chiddingfold woodland complex is transects are of vital importance in important as a site for the Wood White – understanding how butterflies are faring in probably our Branch’s highest-priority our area. New volunteers are always species – and the rare Betony case-bearer welcome. moth, Coleophora wockeella. Look out for Work is underway to produce a separate work parties to join, starting again in the Annual Report of the state of butterflies and I continued next page Surrey Skipper 4 Spring 2017 I CHAIRMAN from previous page At this point, I would like to recognise autumn. Bill has also been coordinating Francis Kelly for his work on the Skipper searches for Brown Hairstreak eggs in the newsletter and Branch website (with northern part of the Branch area. See his Ken Owen). These are among the best of article on page 12 for some interesting and any branch, and you can always find out encouraging findings. what’s going on by visiting the website. Head Office is keen to stimulate more Finally, we sent a message on behalf of activity in London, and discussions are the Branch to Martin Warren, outgoing underway regarding potential projects to CEO, to congratulate him on his OBE in the engage communities and children in the New Year’s Honours. His reply ended with area and involving local branches. It is early the challenge: “Now you have to keep up the days, but this could be quite exciting, so good work!” I take that as a call to action for watch this space! us all and I will do all I can to assist. Introducing our new Chair I HAVE had a long interest in butterflies keen to learn more. and moths, which started as I was growing I have now taken early retirement after 31 up in a Dorset village near the sea. I used to years with Shell, where I started as a play in wildflower meadows, woodlands research scientist. I have been lucky to live and chalk grasslands through the long in Japan and The Netherlands for work, summer holidays. Butterflies were eventually moving to the Surrey & SW everywhere. London Branch area in 2010. A key moment was when a retired RAF For the last 20 years, I have been officer and skilled lepidopterist, Phil Grey, involved in marketing, branding and settled in the village. We visited many communications. butterfly sites across Dorset, extending my Most recently, I led a 100-strong team knowledge and deepening my interest. that produced all the communications I still have the copy of E.B. Ford’s materials for the company across the world “Butterflies” that he gave me. – including websites, brochures, reports, He went on to co-found the Dorset videos, photography, events and Branch of Butterfly Conservation and was a exhibitions. I hope that my business friend of our own Branch expert, Ken experience will be of value as we address Wilmott. I then became a member of the challenges faced by butterflies and Butterfly Conservation in 1985. moths in our region. I am a relative newcomer to moth- I look forward to working together with trapping, though I do run a trap in my you all. Simon Saville garden near The Oval in London, and I am Big Butterfly Count People Butterflies UK top 10 2016 Red Admiral..............26,568 46,000 ....830,000 2013 Large White ..............62,890 Peacock ....................18,508 44,000 ....560,000 2014 Small White ..............61,955 Green-veined White 16,879 2015 52,000 ....600,000 Meadow Brown ........57,281 Small Tortoiseshell..12,335 2016 36,000 ....390,000 Gatekeeper ..............47,597 Speckled Wood........10,271 LINK Big Butterfly Count 2017 July 14 – August 6 Ringlet ......................26,968 Surrey Skipper 5 Spring 2017 Digital Skipper Francis Kelly OUR decision to go digital with the Skipper contacts lists held by the branch and head last October received overwhelming office. That issue has now been resolved. approval, particularly for the money The A4 size of the redesigned Skipper it saved that can be redirected towards allows clear display and easy printing. conservation. Here are some reactions: An essential (22-page) edition of this Just read the Skipper online – brilliant! Skipper is being posted to the 20% of Ian Hardy, MVO members for whom we do not hold an email address.
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